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Working on big story in Louisiana we will be releasing before the election. It's time we finally bring some people down there to justice.
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 21, 2014
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Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 10:48 pmWait, isn’t the election Saturday?
So, if it’s going to be before the election . . . why, then, that would be soon, wouldn’t it?
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 10:48 pmI would imagine that O’Keefe is not a Landrieu fan. And probably not a fan of the local US Attorney.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/3/2014 @ 10:57 pmhttp://www.sunherald.com/2014/11/29/5941494_conservative-activist-james-okeefe.html?rh=1
he may have found out that the Senator has no LA address
EPWJ (db4127) — 12/3/2014 @ 10:58 pmSpeculation is warmly welcomed, but I cannot comment at this time.
There is the history of posts on my site to consult.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 10:59 pmHow are you this evening, Kevin M?
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:00 pmMaybe this is a way to make sure that non liberals get out and actually vote against Landrieu on Saturday.
seeRpea (2a32aa) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:09 pmKevin M,
Remember that time we broke news on Ginsburg? Good times.
Hey, I have a Twitter feed. Did you know that? Here is a tweet I just put up for no reason.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:16 pm*drums fingers*
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:21 pmWe can neither confirm nor deny the presence of a human child.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:25 pmSo. Not to speculate. But perhaps that line of inquiry bore fruit?
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:27 pmPerhaps. As in, yeah.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:29 pmAre you with me, Kevin M?
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:30 pm1:00 p.m. Central time might be a significant time of day tomorrow.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:31 pm*tap tap tap*
Is this thing even on?
*tap tap tap*
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:35 pmYes, I’m here. Trying to remember the Ginsberg thing. Was that her attending a fundraiser for a case before her Court?
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:37 pmSo, then, who got caught with the sockpuppets?
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:37 pmGinsberg thing is just a shared memory, not relevant to this issue.
“Frankly, I don’t see how they could have helped themselves.”
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:39 pmGoogle is your friend.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:42 pmIf Jan Mann was caught out, why would that be a big story? Now, if Landrieu (I think of a Star Trek episode every time I type that) or her staff was part of it, that would be wonderful. Even better if they got caught tapping O’Keefe’s phones, but that would pin the irony meter, so probably not.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:43 pmyes, yes, Nov 29, 2012. Found that right off, of course.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:47 pmHm. Maybe this matters more to me than to most? Anyway, you and I are speaking in code here, apparently indecipherable to the rest of the world, so I will just say: I don’t know the entirety of what will be revealed. But to me it’s enough that the suspicion of Nov. 29, 2012 has been shown true — and these folks are not unrelated, as the particulars will (I believe) show.
We’ll see.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:50 pmI am so annoyed I did not find this myself. I tried, very hard, to do so.
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:50 pmIsn’t it weird how that seemingly pedestrian phrase from the tweet appears in only one place on Google?
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/3/2014 @ 11:51 pmWell, if you don’t count the guy who lifted your entire post.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:00 amThere’s scrapers everywhere.
Patterico (3f355b) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:03 am*shrug* , even if the deal is that Holden was siphoning off money that the New Orleans DA was laundering for a drug ring the MSM wouldn’t care or report.
seeRpea (2a32aa) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:06 amLandrieu will lose anyway, so in the grand scheme of things the truly important fact is that I was right.
Patterico (3f355b) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:12 amI’m seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:19 amI’m pretty sure it’s not going to involve O’Keefe pleading guilty to violating a couple of dozen national security laws for walking into a government building as EPWJ originally claimed.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:22 amand to rip off the headline,
Never Trust Rolling Stones
http://www.richardbradley.net/shotsinthedark/2014/12/03/rolling-stone-hedges-its-bets/
seeRpea (2a32aa) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:32 amcryptic poast is cryptic… film @ 11AM PST?
😎
redc1c4 (269d8e) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:51 amThey are going to find a room full of IRS hard drives.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:51 amObola’s school records…
(but still no birth certificate %-)
redc1c4 (269d8e) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:53 ami’m excited how the day of reckoning is nigh
happyfeet (831175) — 12/4/2014 @ 2:25 amA video has surfaced with Landrieu’s chief of staff’s father, who is a mayor there, urging voters to cast multiple ballots. I think it was ‘Black Conservatives’ who posted it on Twitter. It’s posted at The Other McCain now.
Estragon (ada867) — 12/4/2014 @ 3:06 amPatterico is very smart. Google tells me that the phrase “Frankly, I don’t see how they could have helped themselves” appears in this Patterico post dated 11/29/2012 that addresses misconduct in the US Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Louisiana — the prosecutors who also prosecuted O’Keefe. I remember that post because the “shenanigans” in the New Orleans US Attorney’s office make them sound like internet trolls, which isn’t a big deal online but it’s shocking behavior for prosecutors:
Patterico also speculated in that post whether the prosecutors engaged in the same misconduct in the O’Keefe case that occurred in other cases. It sounds like we may find out today if they did.
As noted by Kevin M in comment #20, one of the prosecutors was Jan Mann. I guess it’s not big news if we learn Mann or other prosecutors engaged in the same misconduct in the O’Keefe case as they did in other cases … but if I were O’Keefe, it would certainly feel like big news to learn the prosecutors engaged in dirty tricks in my case. And since Mary Landrieu was the target of O’Keefe’s sting, I would also want to know whether there are any links between these prosecutors and the Landrieu family.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 6:33 amIn other news, researchers are developing perfect liberal… http://www.cnet.com/news/mice-implanted-with-human-brain-cells-become-smarter/
Colonel Haiku (c0421f) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:02 amhttp://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/05/sal_perricone_jan_mann_online.html
EPWJ (598909) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:04 am“I guess morons attract.”
Patterico (9c670f) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:13 amFederal prosecutors are certainly not distinguishing themselves in modern times. The Ted Stevens’ trial was a travesity of the first order, and it is only partially (25%) ameliorated by the suicide of prosecutor Nicolas Marsh. Regrettably, Stevens was killed before he had a chance to see that the official review of the trial determined that the prosecutors had engaged in professional misconduct. Politics may be war by other means, but it is still deadly. I hope O’Keefe gets his pound of flesh.
bobathome (348c8a) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:16 amLeftwing politics in Louisiana is a hot, rancid, Creole stew of misogyny, racism, criminality and idiocy. Come on down… they’ll cook you up a mess a stupid.
Colonel Haiku (c0421f) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:23 amColonel, the perfect liberal/progressive would have pig astrocytes injected into their brains at birth, and all the human astrocytes would be overrun by middle age.
bobathome (348c8a) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:30 amCol,
Mann is the daughter of a long time conservative and republican leader. She convicted many corrupt politicians and her comments on NOLA have been waaay blown out of proportion as opposed to the comments she was addressing.
She is also a lifelong childhood friend of Landrieus and should have recused herself from trying Okeefe (or did she?)
EPWJ (598909) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:37 amEPWJ,
US Attorney Jim Letten recused himself from the prosecution of O’Keefe, possibly because of the co-defendants was the son of the US Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. Letten’s first assistant, Jan Mann, took over the prosecution.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:45 amDRJ,
If you go waay back on Patterico I broke the news that Maselli and Landrieu served on boards together, families were very close and were classmates from Kindergarten to 12th grade in a class of less than 45. All this info was made available to O’Keefe’s legal counsel, well before the trial would have commenced – O’keefe was charged with a felony, he decided to plea to a lesser crime and to the outrage of just about every federal judge in that district.
He’s really lucky he is walking around free today, and his stunt by confronting Letten – which is another possible crime – he really needs to stop doing things that put hiumslef at risk – ask for a retrial – or he’s going to find that he is in Louisiana where people don’t play little games.
You really don’t want to serve time in Louisiana
EPWJ (598909) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:56 amHere is a New Orleans Times-Picayune article that describes Jan Mann’s anonymous comments at its nola.com website.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:56 amDRJ
Interesting article..
http://thelensnola.org/2013/08/27/the-okeefeletten-dust-up-at-tulane-more-there-than-sound-and-fury/
EPWJ (598909) — 12/4/2014 @ 7:57 amEPWJ,
Defendants need a valid legal reason to ask a judge to transfer a case or to get a prosecutor to recuse themselves. Meeting the family or going to school with someone isn’t enough, and the prosecutors’ online commenting wasn’t discovered until long after O’Keefe’s trial.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 8:03 amThat is a good link, EWPJ.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 8:05 amEPWJ, not EWPJ. Sorry!
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 8:06 amJimmy Hoffa… bureid face down under Carlos Marcello…
Colonel Haiku (c0421f) — 12/4/2014 @ 8:06 amEPWJ,
There is a lot of questionable conduct, some might even say corruption, in Louisiana. It doesn’t always get uncovered or, as in the case of the prosecutors’ online commenting about pending cases, it doesn’t get uncovered until long after the fact. I can see why O’Keefe might have felt he had to plea bargain in a jurisdiction like that, even if he didn’t believe he was guilty. I can also see why he might feel compelled to uncover what happened later.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 8:09 amDRJ,
The comments by Maselli (Mann) were actually about some police officers who shot several unarmed people on the danziger case. Funny how in a day where people are decrying police abuse in the Garner case – here we have Mann years before it was a cause celeb trying police officers for murder and mayhem and being dragged through the mud for VERY VERY mild comments about speculations that the case was thrown out – comments that she could have easily made in public – she is being attacked for it.
Her conduct was only questionable because she didn’t put her name on it.
O’keefe plead guilty because he was, he went into a secure facility with a team of men, lied to law enforcement officials and attempted to flee. He could have been charged with a lot more. If only he knew that that phone he was focused on was an internal line, a answering service handles most public offices of politicians.
THe whole thing could have blown over without anything serious occuring IMO if Breitbart hadn’t started making a federal case out of it by screaming unlawful detention etc etc maybe even before he had any info on what James had really done – it was a textbook how not to do a sting on federal property. Okeefe isn’t helping by confronting Lettens wife and then trespassing on Tulane’s property and confronting Letten which confronting prosecutors judges and government officials at their work or residence is possibly a crime. The fact that he decided to wait until his probation was over makes him look even worse in the eyes of a court. He could be facing years in jail, I don’t think there is going to be arguing about statutes of limitations if he has anymore physical confrontations with the Lettens or the Manns if this is where this is going.
He needs to get legal counsel that is not a fan, or a sympathizer but someone who has Jame’s O’keefe personal freedoms at heart.
I don’t think he has ever gotten that type of counsel.
EPWJ (598909) — 12/4/2014 @ 8:27 amEPWJ,
I know the prosecutors’ comments weren’t about O’Keefe — at least there’s no evidence of that so far, but we’ll see. They were about the Danziger Bridge case, weren’t they? But the ABA rules are clear that prosecutors aren’t allowed to make comments about pending cases:
What happened with the prosecutors in Louisiana is shocking. Really.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:00 amHere is an excerpt from ABA rule 3.6 that applies to all lawyers, not just prosecutors:
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:04 amdrj
As usual you are correct – however, in this case the trial was over, the comments were post verdict. That’s why they initially said they made no comments DURING the trial, which at least in the Danziger case was mostly true –
Supposedly they broke this in some sleazy bribery case but only after they were accused of committing crimes by even indicting the skeez.
Mann made lots of public comments during the trial of David Duke
EPWJ (598909) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:06 amOh, the rot goes deeper than that.
Holder has spread his rot from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Bering Sea.
And across the border with Mexico.
Steve57 (c4b0b3) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:26 amI don’t agree the prosecutors’s online comments were all post-verdict, EPWJ. I think you should review Patterico’s earlier post on this topic and the Judge’s Order linked therein.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:31 amYep. I am on pins and needles.
Patricia (5fc097) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:46 amDRJ
They were in reference to why a case was thrown out by a federal judge – the other was an exchange of personal insults and not trial related. The person was indicted and was accusing Letten’s office of taking bribes or influence from his competitors etc.
Not professional but not worthy of some ground breaking slew of new trials –
The fact that the exchanges are not listed by the TP, or NOLA.com lends credence to the reasoning that there is absolutely nothing there.
Don’t be surprised to see her as a Federal Judge one day.
EPWJ (8f5c4e) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:50 amDRJ
The Judge issuing the outrage is the one who’s being accused publically of being personally influenced to throwing out a trial – that’s all you need to know about that screed – if we could only examine the defense teams personal emails and their online persona’s then this would not have been an issue.
Nothing HAPPENED to them, they are temporarily banned from the US District something that isn’t enforceable and most likely wont stand
Louisiana, is a contact sport played for keeps – that’s why NOLA has more law school seats per capita than anywhere else in the world…..
(So they said back in the 80’s)
EPWJ (8f5c4e) — 12/4/2014 @ 9:58 amEl Rushbo just mentioned a severe environmental disaster in PA, a tractor-trailer turned over carrying 19,000 copies of the NYT.
Hopefully the driver was not seriously injured.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/4/2014 @ 10:02 amThat would be surprising since Mann can’t practice before the federal court in the Eastern or Middle Districts of Louisiana. I guess there’s always the Western District …
DRJ (a83b8b) — 12/4/2014 @ 10:02 am“They were in reference to why a case was thrown out by a federal judge – the other was an exchange of personal insults and not trial related.”
EPWJ – I recommend you take DRJ’s advice in advance of further beclowning.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/4/2014 @ 10:10 amdaleyrocks,
Did you see the May 2014 article exonerating Mann?
Guess not.
EPWJ (e8c813) — 12/4/2014 @ 10:13 amDRJ
I can’t see that as enforceable.
EPWJ (e8c813) — 12/4/2014 @ 10:14 amSteve, I’d forgotten about this recent abuse in Norhern California. It’s interesting how the separation of powers is becoming more and more theoretical, and the U. S. is becoming more and more like Europe, which is to say a banana republic. Bush’s attempts to rid himself of the six prosecutors that he appointed and who seemed to be more interested in getting along than getting to the truth, certainly ended badly for his administration. And in a perverse sort of way, this inability of the Bush administration to use legal means of correcting political malfeasance diminished the signficance of the Judicial Branch almost as much as Roberts discovery that a penalty was just a tax after all. The curious thing about the Stevens trial and the four deputy prosecutors who railroaded Stevens (and thus swayed his chances of reelection in 2008,) was that it was Holder who cleaned up the mess. But by then Stevens was of no concern to the administration. Things have gone so far that it appears that the DoJ and California think they can use the Judicial Branch to amplify their reign of terror. And but for Judge England, they would have succeded in your example.
The ease with which Democrats have aquiesced in the surrender of second and third branch powers to the Administration is remarkable. Harry Reid emasculated the Senate, and England has recussed “every federal judge in the Eastern District of California” due to their failure to ensure a fair trial. These stooges, Reid and the recussed judges, had constitutional roles to play, and they surrendered them without a fight. The only reasonalbe explanation is adherrance to an ideology that is fundamentally un-American is what drives them, their oaths of office being nothing but words.
bobathome (348c8a) — 12/4/2014 @ 10:28 amWhile we wait–some welcome news. The Ft.Hood massacre as “workplace violence'” era is over. Victims to receive purple Hearts and benefits befitting combat status.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/04/fort-hood-victims-set-to-receive-purple-hearts-combat-status/
elissa (c4ece5) — 12/4/2014 @ 11:19 amthat’s good news, elissa, but from what I’ve heard, the rest of that bill is a big slap in the face to the military.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/4/2014 @ 11:32 amfirst – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIxEC0vLlGA
asdf (65cace) — 12/4/2014 @ 11:35 amasdf – Thanks for the link.
EPWJ – Why are you continuing to lie and carry water for these bozos?
Secure building -LOL!
a answering service handles most public offices of politicians – LOL. Prove it. Why would Landieu claim her phones were jammed if that were the case?
He’s really lucky he is walking around free today – ROFLCOPTER!!!
Trespassing at Tulane – Lulz
Did you see the May 2014 article exonerating Mann? – A newspaper exonerated of something? LOL!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/4/2014 @ 11:55 amI’m not sure if I see anything new here.
Kevin M (d91a9f) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:07 pmKevin M,
See the newest thread.
Patterico (3bdcf5) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:10 pmYes, thanks.
MD in Philly (f9371b) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:12 pmWhy do people use the III after their names? It seems so pretentious. If they want to honor an ancestor, they should take his whole name and then append their surname. For example, George Herbert Walker Bush. Or James O’Keefe O’Keefe.
I hate no-spoiler trailers. Because they turn out to have been “as good as it gets” when you finally see the movie.
nk (dbc370) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:15 pmDaley,
Prove it? Why? Its all right there a matter of public record…
Let him go one more time to Lettens house or place of work and see what happens…
EPWJ (8f5c4e) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:17 pm“Prove it? Why? Its all right there a matter of public record…”
EPWJ – Really. Then please provide a link and answer why Senator Landrieu claimed her phone lines were jammed if her office used an answering service.
“Let him go one more time to Lettens house or place of work and see what happens…”
Completely non-responsive and you know it.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 12/4/2014 @ 12:49 pm