Ugh. Here’s the affidavit (PDF). Unfortunately, this looks legit:
O’Keefe and DAI have also admitted to federal agents that worked with Flanagan and Basel in the planning, coordination, and preparation of the operation.
O’Keefe had so much promise after the great work he did with ACORN, which I’m sure the left will try and undermine with this new revelation. It’s a shame that he decided to break the law to get secret information.
UPDATE: Andrew Breitbart corrects the record that O’Keefe isn’t being charged with wiretapping, he’s actually being charged with interfering with Senator Mary Landrieu’s phone. I’ve changed the title to reflect that, since it’s only fair:
MSNBC and other “news organizations” are even billing this developing story as “Watergate”. What do Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow know? And when did they know it?
I’m sure they would like to believe O’Keefe is stupid enough to try to “wiretap” a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera. And they’d like you to believe it, too.
But there is absolutely no allegation in the criminal complaint that “wiretapping” or “bugging” is any part of this case, just the charge that O’Keefe and the others entered Sen. Landrieu’s office in New Orleans “for the purpose of interfering with the office’s telephone system.”