What a bunch of idiots, almost as stupid as G. Gordan Liddy and his boys.  Can you guys explain away this one?

Huh?

Just out of curiosity, how is it "our" job to explain the actions of some other individual?  I didn't try to tap Mary Landrieu's phone line.  Neither, I'm sure, did anyone else who regularly posts here.  I doubt any of us knows these guys.  

Collective guilt and responsibility is about as stupid as getting caught illegally wiretapping someone else's phones.

Well, Jim Hunt's operatives got caught illegally evesdropping on telephone calls of Jim Gardner's son, who was also a campaign official.  They got a slap on the wrist.  The whole thing got swept under the rug.  It should have been followed right up to Hunt and all of them pay the price.

We will have to wait and see who was behind this Louisiana episode.  Landrieu is not even up for election this time, so who knows who it might be.  The Hunt scandal happened in the closing weeks of an election campaign.

The Jim Garner wire tapping episode was one I was involved.I was wire tapped,Terry Edmondson,Jack Hawke,Jim Gardner,Gardner's daughter Terry and some others.I and they would also be followed and our cell phone calls would be taped.I knew early prior to the election this was happening and we had the offices sweeped for bugs.They knew every move I made.I was involved in fund raisers that were big money raisers and I would have major dems max out to the Gardner campaign.Before the event the big dem donors would call and tell me a Hunt politico called and ask why they were supporting Gardner.Before anyone knew about their contribution but me.The couple who initially discovered they could pick up our calls contacted the Hunt campaign and it took off from there.One was a lawyer who had been on the NC supreme court.The other another powerful dem attorney in a very powerful law firm.The defendants reached a settlement,monetary , with Gardner.The court sealed the record and the rest of us could not get access to the taped evidence.

One of the lawyers went on to make 100's of millions off the tobacco settlement and the other went on to also make millions.No jail time.No losing their law license.The only way this was discovered is the couple who discovered by accident they could pick up our cell phone converstions got into a fight and one of them called and spilled the beans.

That was serious and an illustration of how far the dems will go to retain their corrupt power.I was personally investigated by them as I found out from an attorney friend who knew about it.And I am just a private citizen.On the very day Hunt was sworn in officials from the Dept. of Rev. and Dept. of Human Resources were in every business I owned across the state.The day after Clinton was sworn in the IRS came to my home.I hired a very powerful attorney from NYC and after many hours of harassment and over $400k in legal fees and accountant fees nothing was found and they just went away.

When Hunt ran for a third term in 1992, Carlton was an informal adviser and indulged a taste for Nixonian intrigue. In the last week of the campaign, Beverly Smith, a Democratic activist in Rocky Mount, was caught using a police scanner to eavesdrop on the cell-phone calls of her neighbor, the son of Republican candidate Jim Gardner. She had passed along transcripts to one of Carlton's law partners, who gave them to Carlton.

Carlton won't talk about the incident. He and Gardner reached a confidential settlement in 1993. Word around Raleigh is he paid between $100,000 and $500,000. In November of that year he pleaded guilty to a federal wiretapping charge, which earned him a $5,000 fine, six months' probation and 60 hours of community service. In interviews, he downplays the incident. "I thought everybody had forgotten that," he likes to say. Or, as he told The News & Observer of Raleigh, "Nobody brings that up anymore but your newspaper." Truth is, the event was a major embarrassment that could've spread to the Hunt administration had Carlton not settled it quickly. One influential Republican even grumbles that GOP insiders saw the "tobacco deal as Phil's payoff for taking the fall in Scannergate." Carlton has always insisted Hunt didn't know about the spying.

I remember scanner gate.  It's interesting that all of these guys in La. have pretty deep involvement in the tea party movement, college republicans or republican campaigns and one is the one that posed as a pimp at the acorn offices.  We will just have to see if anyone put them up to this or if they were just out there on their own with illusions of being Austin Powers.  Funny stuff.

Huh?

Adam I'm thinking more along the lines of guilt by association rather than collective guilt.

Well, they could actually be that stupid, or we may not be getting the whole story.  The rumor is that Landrieu had rigged the publicly listed office number to send incoming calls to the ethos, because they were getting so much heat on the health care bill.  Silly public, why would they think Landrieu cared what they thought?

Still stupid, but if you see the charges get dropped, you'll know the above is close to the truth.  Wouldn't want that exposed during a trial, don't you know?

I guess Hagan took the safe route, they just didn't answer the phones in her office

CD said :

Well, they could actually be that stupid, or we may not be getting the whole story.  The rumor is that Landrieu had rigged the publicly listed office number to send incoming calls to the ethos, because they were getting so much heat on the health care bill.  Silly public, why would they think Landrieu cared what they thought?

Still stupid, but if you see the charges get dropped, you'll know the above is close to the truth.  Wouldn't want that exposed during a trial, don't you know?

Great spin CD!  Way to redirect.

Huh?

I am more concerned about Obama's half price homesite from corrupt developer and his wife's no show $300k per yr job.And Maxine Waters getting TARP money for a failed bank her husband was involved.More concerned about Poole's 51 counts of extortion and corruption.Obama and Easley are elected officials and appears they are held to lower standards than kids trying to uncover corruption.Obama and Easley didn't start corruption in the democrat party.That has been ongoing for a century.It is only becoming an issue now that we have brave reporters willing to go undercover to expose it.Much like 60 minutes does with its hidden cameras.

Appointing a sleazy scumbag like Eric Holder, who was involved in two pardon scandals, one of them dealing with terrorists, in the Clinton administration as Attorney General  just boggles the mind!

Nothing boggles my mind when it comes to corrupt dems.A gaggle of them made millions on the bypass around Winston Salem.Just follow where the money goes on gov't contracts.And you will see major dems little sticky fingers.

Even the Washington Post has retracted the charges of wiretapping.  See below.

Correction to This Article
Earlier versions of this story incorrectly reported that James O'Keefe faced charges in an alleged plot to bug the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu. The charges were related to an alleged plot to tamper with a phone system. The headline incorrectly referred to a plot to bug the phone and a caption incorrectly referred to an alleged wiretap scheme.

Also, the US Attorney has been forced to recuse himself in the case. 

Again, a stupid prank, but this is going to get quietly dropped to keep from embarassing Landrieu.

The heading in this is "Third rate Republican Burglers".

Didn't some of these guys get the graft and corruption in ACORN pretty much shut down?

Sounds first rate to me.