"Interfering" with the telephone service is what the FBI is alleging....Certainly not a "tap", which requires just a little bit more than a working knowledge of DC electronics and telephone circuitry to pull off. My guess is that these clowns had no equipment that could remotely be described as a "bug" or "tap", otherwise the charges would be upgraded.

Semantics? Perhaps, but it sets the record straight.

No matter what you call it, it's a mighty STUPID stunt that could cost them some time in a Federal pen.

Please correct your story, CF: it's bad enough most of the right-o-sphere has already consigned O'Keefe to a seat under Obama's bus w/o you inflating the hysteria.

I say stick by the Tap story. There is little reason for them to go into the main feed closet for any other than tapping, if they wished to denai her phone service, a simple dialer over load would do it (the original denial of service attacks were well before the intratubes).
The boy got him a big head and it bit him in the arse. The reason it isnt a tap charge is they got caught before getting it done.

You know, I don't think I'd mind it if all Congresscritters had their phones tapped.

Not to say that if O'Keefe was trying to what he is alleged to have done that he should not be prosecuted.

Just kind of makes me think what exactly she has to hide. Her Homeland Security committees are concerned with disaster relief, not counterintelligence or actual security. I sure as hell think that the corruption related people at federal law enforcement should be listening in on all these phones. Probable cause? They're politicians and there isn't a clean one in the business.

What if they had pulled off and gotten some absolutely damming recordings? Something truly game changing, something exposing some kind of deep corruption? The goal is not to try the worthless bastards, the goal is to shame them, to show the world how corrupt they are.

He who will not risk, will not win. Mr. O'Keefe, you bit off more then you could chew. Like Nathan Hale, you will pay the price for getting caught. Such is the nature of what you do. Good luck to you, and may sneakier people pick up the torch and discover the deadliest weapon in the world: information. For the truth stands on it's own, and roaches will always scurry when you flick the kitchen light on.

I say stick by the Tap story.

Regardless of what you think, they have not been charged with wiretapping, so all these stories floating around the web pretending this is Watergate The Sequel are the usual media garbage. And lot's of normally sensible right-wing sites are falling for it.

The reason it isnt a tap charge is they got caught before getting it done.

Attempting to wire tap a phone is still a crime. It's not a crime they were charged with though.

in the end they may be railroaded for being "an enemy of the state" liberal machine but I doubt they were doing anything remotely like what is being alleged.

jp says stick to the tap story.... why? there is no proof being offered of that. instead all ive seen so far is hysteria and innuendo.

Maybe he was just trying to figure out why she won't answer the phone. No one in LA can get here to discuss issues.

Whatever it was he thought he was doing, it was a stupid stunt that probably will earn him a federal conviction of some sort or another.

Idiot. And now the slime at Acorn and elsewhere are baying that this idiotic act somehow excuses their facilitating child prostitution and tax evasion.

Here is the best hypothesis I've seen, follows along with Davids theory above.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/200687.php

You actually believe the "grenade launcher" "News", still? *sigh* Go ahead, pout, cry, scream... as for me, I will wait about 5 minutes for the real story to come out. Bah!

I am starting to worry about you.

from what I see trickling out, I dont see how simple tresspass is a federal beef.

and in the end thats all they have tresspass, and possibly somnething to do with misrepresenting who you are to gain access. none of which rises to a federal level.

I think the far more important question here is: Why can't the people in LA get ahold of their villiage idiot? Is the phone turned off, or set to voicemail? If this is the case, then LA needs to remove the current villiage idiot and replace her with another, thus bring the iq level in LA a little bit higher.