The activist from the ACORN scandal, James O'Keefe, who was arrested last week for tampering with and wiretapping the office of Senator Mary Landrieu, employed a tactic I complained of 5 months ago in my lawsuit Aisha v. FBI.
Day one, the phone company would send someone to fix my phone line, then by day two, unbeknownst to us, Madonna's Kabbalah would send someone posing as a telephone repairman to tamper with it again.
This pattern repeated itself 3 times in 2005 over the course of two weeks, which led me to call the phone company and ask how many repair men they sent out. They said 3, yet we counted 6 and one of them knew too much about me, made his way into my home studio and confronted me, which gave the game away that he was a fraud posing as a repairman. Something he said gave it away that it was Kabbalah. I stated in the lawsuit:
Furthermore, how would the FBI explain away all the concrete evidence in the case, illustrating blatant crimes being committed against Aisha, such as the fact the hacks into Aisha’s computers to steal copyrights have been digitally and irrefutably traced back to the staff of Madonna.com. Madonna’s famous producers, affiliates and friends contacting Aisha online, by phone and in person. Her business partner, Sony, contacting Aisha repeatedly via email, inviting her to their company, sending her a gift by mail containing spyware, then proceeding to commit criminal copyright infringement, unlawfully using years old, preexisting copyrights belonging to Aisha. Members of Madonna’s Miami Kabbalah Center arrogantly stalking Aisha’s on a weekly basis, approaching her and getting caught on camera. The revelation that members of Madonna’s Kabbalah Center trespassed at Aisha’s home, unlawfully gaining access to Aisha’s house, pretending to be AT&T and Direct TV technicians the companies later claimed no knowledge of dispatching.
Based on reports over the past few days, O'Keefe and others conspired, then went to Senator Mary Landrieu's office posing as telephone repairmen. Apparently, this is the latest way to trespass and commit invasion of privacy and wiretapping. The sad part is innocent surveillance targets could get hurt in this manner, when people abuse phone companies' names, posing as their employees.
There was an incident regarding my phone line needing repair. All of a sudden, our line bore all the written about signs of wiretapping, such as interference on the line, static, secondary conversations as though the lines were crossed up, the phone would ring and a constant beeping noise would sound with no one on the other end, calls would abruptly cut off during key points in conversations and clicking noises would sound during certain phone calls. I looked it up online. Numerous private investigators' websites and book excerpts referred to it as signs or symptoms of wiretapping.
However, there were two other strange incidents regarding my phone line as well. In 2006, an actual AT&T repairman looked at my phone line, then came into my home office, as he didn't like what he saw on it, then started talking about wiretaps and stated "You aren't a spy are you" which really offended me, because I'm not (he was assuming only spies and terrorists are wiretapped - clearly, he hadn't met Madonna's private eye Anthony Pellicano or heard of the FBI spying on journalists and bloggers). He saw the wiretap.
Then, there was another incident prior to that where an AT&T phone repairman called me into the backyard while he was working on the phone box they put on each person's property and said to me, he doesn't like the fact there is no one inside the house, yet my phone line outside is lit up, showing activity and is engaged.
There is a pervasive corruption in the government and the corporate sector, where people believe they have an illegal right to spy on others, engaging in invasion of privacy, via wiretaps and other unsavory surveillance tools such as hidden cameras, forbidden by law. It needs to stop, as it is unconstitutional, thoroughly illegal and sick.
Has the FBI seized the computers of the New Orleans 4?
January 28, 2010 - Defenders of the operatives who tried to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu's phones point out that the men have not been formally accused of wiretapping. They have been accused of intending to maliciously tamper with the a federally owned phone system.
Wiretapping is one type of malicious tampering. It's also a much more serious and politically explosive charge than mere vandalism. So, as you'd expect, the suspects' lawyers are working overtime to counter suspicions of bugging or wiretapping...
The first step would be to analyze the equipment that the suspects brought with them. According to the affidavit that the two fake "repairmen" were wearing tool belts. So far, authorities haven't said what kind of tools they were carrying. It would also be nice to know more about that listening equipment that Stan Dai supposedly had with him in his car when he was arrested...
All four guys have been bailed out of jail. Let's hope the FBI has taken care to secure their home and work computers. Otherwise, they're probably home wiping their hard drives right now.
