Flanagan may have had a personal motive. Landrieu has proposed a replacement for his US Atty father

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Did stardom blind ACORN foe to right and wrong?
10:00 am January 27, 2010, by ctucker



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James O’Keefe was among four men who created a ruse to enter the lawmaker’s downtown office, saying they needed to repair her telephones, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. O’Keefe used his cellphone to take pictures of two men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, who are accused in an FBI agent’s sworn affidavit of impersonating telephone company workers. Stanley Dai is accused of aiding the Jan. 25 plot.

All four were taken to a suburban New Orleans jail and charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony. If convicted, each man faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.


Flanagan, 24, is the son of William J. Flanagan, the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport. William Flanagan declined to comment through an office assistant.

Flanagan may have had a personal motive. Landrieu has proposed a replacement for his father, and President Obama has nominated her. That’s typical when the White House changes parties. A president nominates U.S. attorneys from his own party.

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http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/01/27/did-stardom-blind-acorn-foe-to-right-and-wrong/?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker

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1. It'd be great if dems pointed this at Beohner like reThugs would do to any dem in charge

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2. I think that idea's a non-starter

The elder Flanagan has been assistant US Attorney for a long time. He served as interim US Attorney previously, in 2000-01, between the departure of Clinton's appointee and the confirmation of Bush's.

In this case, a replacement for the Bush guy was named back last summer, but the confirmation has deliberately been held up by Vitter. The Bush person finally left earlier this month and Flanagan is serving in an interim capacity again until the already-designated Obama appointee can make it through Vitter's blockade.

So no, there is no credible motive of keeping Flanagan in an interim position that he has only held for the past two weeks.

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3. K & R

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