Landrieu Phone-Tampering Scandal

Breitbart Claim: Jailed O'Keefe Couldn't Access Attorney For Hours

Justin Elliott | February 1, 2010, 2:21PM

Andrew Breitbart

Interviewed on Fox just moments ago, Andrew Breitbart claimed that alleged Landrieu phone tamperer James O'Keefe "sat in jail for 28 hours without access to an attorney."

Breitbart, who has been on a public campaign defending O'Keefe, a paid contributor to Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, also charged that the U.S. Attorney's office in Louisiana leaked information to the press "helping" them to frame the episode as "Watergate Junior."

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