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January 29, 2010

Sen. Landrieu cites “spin” after hearing of lawyer’s explanation

By CREW Staff

Corruption, Ethics, Senate, States, Louisiana, Senate Members

J. Garrison Jordan, an attorney for one of the four men charged this week with trying to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) office phone system, has an explanation that the senator isn't buying.

Yesterday, Jordan said the men were not trying to wiretap or disable the phone system -- rather, they simply were trying to capture embarrassing video of Sen. Landrieu's staff ignoring constituent phone calls.

According to Huffington Post:

... Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu wasn't impressed with the lawyer's explanation Thursday that the men hoped to document claims that callers couldn't get through with complaints about her support for health care reform.

"Attorneys are hired to spin for their clients," she said Thursday in an interview in Washington. "Good luck."

One of the four men charged is James O'Keefe, who gained notoriety last year by posing as a pimp and filming undercover video during a visit to an office of ACORN, a community-organizing group.