ACORN Hidden Camera Scandal Being Probed By Feds, Brooklyn DA

[Are_grits_groceries]

ACORN has been contacted by the FBI and the Brooklyn district attorney's office in connection to the recent scandal in which staffers were caught on video advising two people posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to break the law.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/acorn_hidden_camera_scandal_being_probed_by_feds_b.php?ref=fpblg

MEH! We can't investigate people who may have tortured and subverted the Constitution?????? MEH!

[Ian David]

1. Does it say WHOSE SIDE The FBI is actually taking? n/t

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. The activity revealed by the cameras.

Schwartz said that the requests for information were not subpoenas, but confirmed that they were part of investigations into possible criminal activity revealed by the videos. He added that ACORN is cooperating with those requests.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/acorn_hidden_camera_scandal_being_probed_by_feds_b.php?ref=fpblg

Maybe they are also investigating the legality of illegal recoding. I wouldn't hold my breath.

[FarCenter]

7. In New York, so long as one party gives consent, a conversation can be recorded legally

[joeycola]

4. "possible criminal activity revealed by the videos"--umm. at first

glance it tells me they are looking into the activities of Acorn members on the videos.

[spanone]

3. good

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. Illegal activities should be exposed.

However, there seems to be real selectivity about who gets looked at. I hope they are looking at both sides.

[Xenotime]

6. It's these RW camera terrorists that the feds need to go after.

[KharmaTrain]

8. If It Flushes Out O'Keefe I'm All For It...

Firstly...even seeing those videos, what law was broken? Was there money that exchanged hands? Favors granted? Fraud perpetrated...not words but real deeds? So go ahead and investigate.

The upside is that this will force O'Keefe and his puppetmasters out from their hidey hole. Let's see the FULL videos, not the doctored portions. Also let's depose those who funded O'Keefe's operation and see whose really behind this attempt at voter suppression and intimidation.

The O'Keefe scam must be exposed...discredit those who pushed this crap, embarass those who jumped to concusions and put this black flag operation out of business.