Conservative activist James O’Keefe defends actions in Landrieu’s office

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One of four conservative activists arrested and accused last Monday of trying to tamper with telephones in Louisiana Sen. Mary L. Landrieu’s office -- the same person who last year posed as a pimp to make videotapes of ACORN workers offering advice to some apparently unsavory clients -- maintains there’s been ‘a huge misunderstanding.’Appearing Monday night on Fox News Channel’s ‘Hannity,’ James O’Keefe, a 25-year-old videographer who is on the payroll of a conservative blog publisher and whose taping of talks with ACORN workers stirred congressional calls for a cutoff of federal funding for the anti-poverty agency, has made his first full public accounting of the incident at the Democratic senator’s office in New Orleans that resulted in his arrest.

Billed online by ‘Hannity’ as the ‘ACORN pimp,’ O’Keefe told Sean Hannity that the ‘entire visit’’ to Landrieu’s office was on videotape.
‘Actually there’s two different cameras,’’ O’Keefe explains -- he was recording with his cellphone while a friend wearing a telephone repairman’s helmet was wired for video. ‘One was on the helmet and one was on the cellphone. So there’s two... there’s tapes the government has them in possession and I’m willing -- I want them to be released because they refute a lot of these claims being made by the media.’

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-- Mark Silva