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Watergate redux?
Details are sketchy, but here's what we know:
James O'Keefe, the conservative activist/filmmaker who posed as a pimp in a video that resulted in serious embarrassment for ACORN, the community organizing group, was among four people arrested yesterday in New Orleans in an attempt to illegally tamper with the phones in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D).
Also arrested was Robert Flanagan, the son of William Flanagan, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel (also arrested) showed up at Landrieu's office pretending to be telephone repairmen while O'Keefe was already in the office, recording the events with his cell phone.
According to the office of U.S. Attorney Jim Letten, which announced the arrests, Flanagan and Basel "requested access to the telephone closet because they needed to perform work on the main telephone system." The three men were later arrested by the FBI. A fourth person, Stan Dai, was also arrested, for being part of the planning of the operation.
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While most of the media attention is focused on O'Keefe, I'm curious as to what Stan Dai's role was, given his background:
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Stan Dai is the Assistant Director of Trinity's Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence in DC. He was formerly the Assistant Operations Officer at a Department of Defense irregular warfare fellowship program and a Fellow on Terrorism at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
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I wonder who else was in on the plot...
ADG