Watchdog Group Urges Maryland Prosecutors to Indict Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles

[ThirdChoice]

Watchdog Group Urges Maryland Prosecutors to Indict Andrew Breitbart, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for Violating ACORN Employees' Privacy

WASHINGTON, July 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last week, Kevin Zeese, an attorney for VelvetRevolution.us, a national watchdog organization dedicated to clean, accountable and transparent government, sent a letter to both Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler and Maryland State's Attorney Patricia Coats Jessamy requesting criminal charges be brought against James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart for violating Maryland's Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act. A copy of the letter is at http://www.velvetrevolution.us/images/GANSLER-COATS_OKEEFE.pdf.

In short, the letter asserts that Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles secretly conspired, wiretapped and videotaped employees of the Baltimore ACORN office without their knowledge or consent, and published those videos with the intent to cause harm to the employees and ACORN. Maryland's law is very clear in requiring two party consent for any videotaping. The letter cites official reports from two attorneys general, the GAO and the House Judiciary Committee which all noted that O'Keefe et al broke Maryland's privacy laws and edited the tapes to make it appear that ACORN did something wrong when it did not.

O'Keefe has pled guilty to federal crimes in relation to tampering with the phones of Senator Mary Landrieu's Louisiana office last January, and has since been convicted and sentenced for that criminal activity. He and Giles have been sued by an ACORN employee from California for violating his privacy in a case almost identical to the Maryland case. Just yesterday, Breitbart was implicated in another edited video scandal which falsely accused Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod of racism.

"O'Keefe, Breitbart and Giles have clearly engaged in criminal activity with the intent to harm. Their conduct in Maryland is part of a broad scam, often involving out-and-out crimes carried on across the country for political purposes," said VR co-founder and investigative journalist Brad Friedman. "They engage in crimes, create fake scandals and then accuse others of criminal activity. We have asked Maryland law enforcement officials to put a stop to this reprehensible and illegal conduct once and for all."


SOURCE VelvetRevolution.us

[yorgatron]

1. K&R

[peacetalksforall]

2. The greatest scandal of all was that Congress dismantled Acorn over this.

the fear and hate grand kings and queens of lies who were behind the punks - O'Keefe, Giles, Breitbart, had an Acorn win.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. You are right. That is the underlying tragedy of all this...

I hesitate to think of all the people who might have been helped by ACORN in the intervening months that had no where to go..

[alsame]

8. Yep. nt

[Cherchez la Femme]

16. Oops!

My comment "Whilst grandstanding" downthread was supposed to be in reply to your post :blush:

[lib_wit_it]

17. Yep--another case of running scared and acting before having the full story. Disgraceful.

The cowering has to stop!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Wouldn't that be an appropriate thing to do???????

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

I cannot wait to see that little twerp O'Keefe crying all over himself denying that he came up with the idea all by himself..

[formercia]

4. K&R

That crew needs to do some hard time. Obviously, they have not learned their lesson or shown remorse.

[CitizenLeft]

5. DO IT. PLEASE!

Oh would that be sweet - and appropriate.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ThirdChoice.

[SCantiGOP]

9. wiretapping

Didn't that work out really well for Dick Nixon?

[corpseratemedia]

10. Indict!!

[Kingofalldems]

11. K and R for the trumpeter of anti ACORN news

Breitbart's sneaky little pal.------>:shrug:

[Tempest]

12. Jerry Brown is going after them as well

So is the person they secretly taped in California.

California law is clear that both parties have to agree to being recorded.

[Brother Buzz]

13. Jerry Brown made a backroom immunity deal for the unedited tapes -

Jerry Brown discovered when he investigated the ACORN matter last spring, the actual meaning of the Vera tape was severely distorted by dishonest editing to suggest that he had agreed to help smuggle young girls for O’Keefe’s mythical brothel. To obtain unedited versions of the tapes from O’Keefe, Brown gave him and Giles immunity from any criminal prosecution under the state privacy statutes.

Criminal prosecution is off the table in California, but Vera's Civil case looks good! Is there some new criminal action that Brown is pushing that I'm not aware of?

[Hissyspit]

14. kick - this is important nt

[Cherchez la Femme]

15. Whilst grandstanding

[SalmonChantedEvening]

18. Fullest extent of the Law. Now.

[femrap]

19. Put 'em in jail

and get into their pocketbooks!!!