4 charged in phone scheme at La. senator's office

[dbcooper41]

more background on herr dai (btw, in addition ot being a chinese surname, da'i apparently is an arabic term meaning missionary)

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/st ... 6855.shtml

"Students mark third anniversary of attacks - Campus News
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Students mark third anniversary of attacks
by Megan Whittemore Issue: 9/13/04 | Campus News
Media Credit: Erin Shea
About 140 people gathered in University Yard Saturday night to
remember the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.


Amber clouds hovered over University Yard Saturday night as the GW community
united to commemorate the third anniversary of the terrorist attacks of
September 11.

Three years after students awoke to terrorists crashing planes into the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, they gathered on the Quad for a vigil organized
by sophomore Stan Dai and junior Cassandra Waite. The two students, who are
fellows with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a non-partisan
foundation that raises awareness of terrorism issues, are planning four more
events this year.
Student Association President Woodard, a GW freshman at the time of the attacks,
told the crowd of more than 400 students that he turned on his television to
witness planes crash into the World Trade Center. Later, while on campus, he
heard the thunderous noise of a Boeing 757 airliner slamming into the Pentagon.

"Some events that are so powerful, they remain with us," said Woodard, who made
the first remarks of the memorial service just after 8 p.m. "It was only three
years ago, but I was right there."

University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg spoke to candle-holding students
in front of a silhouette design of the New York City skyline, including the Twin
Towers and the words "9/11/2001: I remember."

"The message I'd like you to take away is that we all need to look after each
other, care and love each other a little more," said Trachtenberg, who was at
the Pentagon when it was attacked.

Sharing the perspective of the U.S. government during the attacks, Thomas J.
Kuster Jr., deputy assistant secretary of defense for force planning and
employment, addressed the crowd at the vigil.

"I was in the B-ring of the Pentagon when the plane hit the C-ring," said
Kuster, who was giving a briefing that day.

Kuster called terrorism an "attack on civilization" and urged students to be
aware of the security threats they face.

"Any of you standing here today may be the next victim," he said.
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now check out the "foundation for the defense of democracies".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation ... emocracies

considering FDoD was founded 2 days after 9/11/2001 and the collection of heavy hitters on it's board, and it's international scope, i think they deserve a closer look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation ... emocracies

"The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a policy institute based in Washington, D.C.. FDD was founded two days after the September 11, 2001 attacks to engage in the worldwide war of ideas and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism. "

pretty quick response to 9/11!

"Board of Directors, advisors and fellows
FDD's president is Clifford D. May. FDD's executive director is Mark Dubowitz. FDD’s Leadership Council is composed of prominent thinkers and leaders from the defense, intelligence, and policy communities including Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Bill Kristol, Louis J. Freeh, Joseph Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, Max Kampelman, Robert McFarlane, and James Woolsey.

The members of FDD's Board of Advisors are Gary Bauer, Rep. Eric Cantor, Gene Gately, General P.X. Kelley, Charles Krauthammer, Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, Richard Perle, Steven Pomerantz, Oliver "Buck" Revell, and Francis J. "Bing" West.[2]"

"FDD initiatives
FDD has initiated the following centers, coalitions, committees and ongoing projects:

The Center for Terrorism Research
The Center for Law & Counterterrorism
The Future of Terrorism
The Coalition Against Terrorist Media
The Committee on the Present Danger "

"Center for Law and Counterterrorism
FDD believes that the war against terrorism cannot be won on the battlefield alone, and says that Senior Fellow Andrew C. McCarthy is one of the nation’s leading experts on prosecuting the war against terrorists while protecting the civil liberties of Americans.

For 18 years, McCarthy was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. From 1993 to 1995, he led the successful prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 others in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks. He also made major contributions to the prosecutions of the bombers of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as the Millennium plot attack at Los Angeles International Airport.

He joined FDD as a senior fellow in 2004 to address the issue of protecting of civil liberties while fighting terrorism.

In 2006, FDD stated that it tasked McCarthy with laying the groundwork for the Center for Law & Counterterrorism (CLC). This program examines the inevitable tension between civil liberties and national security. The CLC advisors McCarthy recruited include former Education Secretary William Bennett, retired Chief Federal District Judge Michael B. Mukasey, former Deputy Attorney General George J. Terwilliger III, National Review Editor Rich Lowry, Columbia Law School Professor Daniel C. Richman, and FDD Senior Fellow Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official."

this bunch is connected!!!

[seemslikeadream]

Curiouser and Curiouser

David Kurtz | January 27, 2010, 9:31AM

Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart, whose "Big Government" website was the platform for James O'Keefe's ACORN pimp sting video last year, released a seemingly categorical statement yesterday saying he didn't have anything to do with O'Keefe's alleged attempted bugging of Sen. Mary Landrieu's office.

But things got a lot fuzzier in a radio interview Breitbart did with a sympathetic Hugh Hewitt late yesterday.

Breitbart conceded that he does pay O'Keefe a "fair salary" and also mentioned that he pays O'Keefe for "life rights" and can accept or decline to use what O'Keefe produces. It's not clear, but it sounds like Breitbart has a right of first refusal on whatever O'Keefe's produces and in return O'Keefe receives compensation in some form, perhaps on a monthly basis akin to a salary.

In the interview, Breitbart stopped short of calling O'Keefe an employee, while also agreeing with Hewitt -- perhaps incongruously -- that whatever O'Keefe was doing in New Orleans was "not within the scope of his employment."

[Uncle $cam]

war-profiteer and former CIA Director R. James Woolsey as well as Committee on the Present Danger has serious ties together with this bunch, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and as war profiteer's of the Iraq Study Group at the United States Institute of Peace.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2006/11/di ... #c25892054

It's a new think tank on par with PNAC: (same old liars with a brand new name)

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/02/op ... c104995294

[sunny]

Just a prank that went too far, dontcha know.

[luv2dive]

A good general update:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_ ... ce_arrests

I especially liked his comments to the press:

Excerpt -----

As O'Keefe left jail Tuesday with Dai and Basel, he said only "Veritas," Latin for truth.

As he got into a cab outside, O'Keefe said, "The truth shall set me free."
End ----

================

It struck me as rather "cultish" speak for some reason when I read it. A real "True Believer".

================

And the CIA connection is getting reported:

================
Excerpt---
Dai is a former assistant director of a program at Trinity Washington University that taught students about careers in intelligence, university president Patricia McGuire said. It was part of a national effort to interest students at liberal arts colleges in careers in intelligence but did not teach spy craft, she said.

He was listed as a "freelance consultant" in a Junior Statesmen program at the Central Intelligence Agency where he appeared as a speaker.
End---

[chiggerbit]

Is it conceivable that the charges could include spying? Or does spying have to be on behalf of a foreign government?

They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal's Service. Details of the arrest were not available.

I wonder if we would have even heard of this if it had been the FBI instead of the Marshals.

[dbcooper41]

I wonder if we would have even heard of this if it had been the FBI instead of the Marshals.

i don't know why but i have this nagging feeling that we were supposed to find out all about this. or can they really be this incompetent at "tradecraft"?
personaly i'm looking at the foundation for defense of democracies angle. they are some heavy hitters who came together immediately after 9/11.

and fwiw, Sen. Mary Landrieu has her picture in the brocheure for the "JUNIOR STATESMEN
SUMMER SCHOOL".
http://www.jsa.org/download/Summer09/Su ... ochure.pdf
according the DU(i think)stan dai supposedly has some affiliation with them.

[dbcooper41]

http://www.jsa.org/georgetown/wordpress ... ackets.pdf

more on mr dai.

11:30 AM Mr. Stan Dai
A. Current Employment
Job Title: Freelance consultant
B. Career History
· Mr. Dai has been involved in JSA since 2001: after attending summer school at
Yale, he founded the JSA chapter at Naperville North, served in various Midwest
region positions, and was a resident assistant at Georgetown.
· Mr. Dai was the first Assistant Director of the Intelligence Community Center of
Academic Excellence at Trinity in D.C.
· Prior to that, he served as the Operations Officer of a Department of Defense irregular warfare fellowship
program.
· Mr. Dai graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the George Washington University. He was the editor-in-chief of The
GW Patriot, an alternative conservative student newspaper, a Club 100 Activist of Young America’s Foundation,
and an Undergraduate Fellow on Terrorism of the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracies.
C. Issues
Torture President Obama has pronounced that the practice of waterboarding and other enhanced
interrogation techniques are forms of torture that “corrode the character of a country.”
This week, the government is preparing to release a long-delayed internal Inspector
General’s report on the CIA's secret detention and interrogation program, which outlines
the methods and legal rationales for the program. Human rights activists and
administration critics have demanded that top officials be held accountable for
authorizing these practices. Former Bush officials contend that the use of these
techniques have elicited vital information that has kept Americans safe. (New York
Times)
Domestic terrorism
Domestic terrorism is the “unlawful use, or threatened use, of violence by a group or
individual based and operating entirely within the U.S. committed against persons or
property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population… in furtherance
of political or social objectives” (FBI). In April, an internal U.S. government report
forecasted a rise in domestic terrorism, particularly “right wing extremism”. Their
assessment was that the combination of environmental factors, such as heightened
interest in legislation for tighter firearms restrictions, an uncertain economy, and an
influx of returning veterans, may be invigorating extremist activity (DHS Intelligence
Assessment). Recent events, such as the shooting at the Holocaust museum by a white
supremacist and the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortionist, support these
concerns. It is unclear whether these incidents are part of a trend or isolated events.
D. Possible Questions
1. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has defended the Bush administration’s policies on surveillance, interrogation and
detention as crucial factors that have protected the homeland. How much valid is the former administration’s assertions that
these kinds of policies have prevented another terrorist attack on the United States?
2. President Obama has announced he will close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. He has announced he will close CIA
black sites around the world, where they interrogate terror suspects. Says he will make CIA interrogators abide by the Army
Field Manual, defined waterboarding as torture and ban it, suspend trials for terrorists by military commission, and now
eliminate the label of enemy combatants. By taking those steps, do you believe the president of the United States has made
Americans less safe?

Operations Officer of a Department of Defense irregular warfare fellowship

anyone know what this is about?

[Uncle $cam]

With ties to people like ex-head of FBI, Louis Freeh, Attorney General of the United States, Michael Bernard Mukasey, Steven Pomerantz, former FBI, an intelligence profiteer Oliver "Buck" Revell, former FBI, another intelligence profiteer I'm sure we wouldn't have heard anything about this...


The Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. That groups mission is:

Non-profit and non-partisan, FDD promotes informed debate about policies and positions that will most effectively eradicate the scourge of international terrorism.
In addition, FDD works to improve education about democracies, and to help promote democracy in troubled regions around the globe.

The American Conservative explains the story behind FDD. It evolved out of the Educational Initiative, Inc. which had the task
to offer Israel the kind of PR that the Israeli government seemed unable to provide itself.
...
Its nearly $3 million annual budget comes from 27 major donors, most of whom are members of ´the Study Group´ .. a semi-formal organization of major Jewish philanthropists
...
Dalck Feith, father of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, also gave $100,000.
...
On March 9, 2001, three days before Emet’s articles of incorporation were filed in New York, the Forward reported that ´A[n Israeli] Foreign Ministry source leaked news of the initiative -called ‘Emet,’ or ‘truth,’ in Hebrew- to Israel Radio, portraying the effort as a Foreign Ministry project that the Americans were trying to co-opt.

According to the article Nir Bohms was even the first hire of the Educational Initiative. Nils Boms is also analyst in a group Middle East On Target. There one of his career steps mentioned is

a position at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, DC as the Academic Liaison, serving as an educator, specialist and guest lecturer on Israeli and Middle Eastern affairs.

Other sources name him as "former public affairs officer of the Israeli Embassy".

Suburb of Tel Aviv?

The American Conservative: (The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies goes on offense.)
http://web.archive.org/web/200807222310 ... icle1.html

[dbcooper41]

On March 9, 2001, three days before Emet’s articles of incorporation were filed in New York, the Forward reported that ´A[n Israeli] Foreign Ministry source leaked news of the initiative -called ‘Emet,’ or ‘truth,’ in Hebrew- to Israel Radio, portraying the effort as a Foreign Ministry project that the Americans were trying to co-opt.

luv2dive

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_ ... ce_arrests

I especially liked his comments to the press:

Excerpt -----

As O'Keefe left jail Tuesday with Dai and Basel, he said only "Veritas," Latin for truth.

As he got into a cab outside, O'Keefe said, "The truth shall set me free."
End ----

Veritas indeed!

[MinM]

With ties to people like ex-head of FBI, Louis Freeh, Attorney General of the United States, Michael Bernard Mukasey, Steven Pomerantz, former FBI, an intelligence profiteer Oliver "Buck" Revell, former FBI, another intelligence profiteer I'm sure we wouldn't have heard anything about this...

The American Conservative explains the story behind FDD. It evolved out of the Educational Initiative, Inc. which had the task
to offer Israel the kind of PR that the Israeli government seemed unable to provide itself.
...
On March 9, 2001, three days before Emet’s articles of incorporation were filed in New York, the Forward reported that ´A[n Israeli] Foreign Ministry source leaked news of the initiative -called ‘Emet,’ or ‘truth,’ in Hebrew- to Israel Radio, portraying the effort as a Foreign Ministry project that the Americans were trying to co-opt...

considering FDoD was founded 2 days after 9/11/2001 and the collection of heavy hitters on it's board, and it's international scope, i think they deserve a closer look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation ... emocracies

"The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a policy institute based in Washington, D.C.. FDD was founded two days after the September 11, 2001 attacks to engage in the worldwide war of ideas and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism and militant Islamism. "

pretty quick response to 9/11!

"Board of Directors, advisors and fellows
FDD's president is Clifford D. May. FDD's executive director is Mark Dubowitz. FDD’s Leadership Council is composed of prominent thinkers and leaders from the defense, intelligence, and policy communities including Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Bill Kristol, Louis J. Freeh, Joseph Lieberman, Newt Gingrich, Max Kampelman, Robert McFarlane, and James Woolsey.

The members of FDD's Board of Advisors are Gary Bauer, Rep. Eric Cantor, Gene Gately, General P.X. Kelley, Charles Krauthammer, Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, Richard Perle, Steven Pomerantz, Oliver "Buck" Revell, and Francis J. "Bing" West.[2]"

Democratic Underground - That's probably Israel ... - Democratic Underground

Found an old story on him from his hometown newspaper (Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) - Saturday, June 12, 2004) from when he was at GWU.

He said, "I want to spend two weeks in that country, to know what it feels like. . ."

Another bit on how anti-war protesters "annoy" him from Times Union, The (Albany, NY) - Thursday, March 27, 2003:

"'The people who organize the anti-war movement annoy me,' says Dai, 17. Many classmates who oppose the war are 'well-meaning but naive,' he says. A silent majority supports military action. (Notably, that last sentence isn't in quotes, which suggests some editorializing on the part of the writer -RGB)

"'None of us wakes up in the morning wanting to see war,' he says. But he believes it's necessary in this case.'

"Of the classmates who walked out earlier this month in protest, Dai says only a few knew enough about the issues to explain why they oppose the war.

"'Half the students who left were doing it just because they wanted to ditch class,' he says."

[seemslikeadream]

James O’Keefe, the College Years
By DAVID WEIGEL 1/27/10 10:51 AM
A friend passes on a copy of the inaugural issue of The Centurion, the conservative paper James O’Keefe started at Rutgers University — before he worked for a year at the Leadership Institute, helping conservatives on other campuses start their own publications.

The issue is after the jump, and it’s worth checking out now that we know that O’Keefe’s alleged co-conspirators also came from the world of conservative campus activism. And O’Keefe’s first editor’s note contains the statement — “the truth will set you free” — that he gave to reporters when leaving the courthouse yesterday.

Disguising truth has helped every blood-thirsty tyrant and dictator keep the shackles on humanity throughout history. Let us rock the foundations of academia and challenge the thrones that have for too long indoctrinated us about our world and the context in which we live. As the Journal of Conservative thought at Rutgers university THE CENTURION will try its hardes to serve to that end. Turn the page. You may read things you agree with and you may read things that you disagree with. But at least you’ll come closer to realizing your own truth, and in the words of Jesus Christ, “The truth shall set you free.”

[DoYouEverWonder]

Tell me these teabaggers didn't stage this one, with Stan Dai playing the role of a key eyewitness.

Pro-Life Women Forcibly Dragged From John Kerry Abortion Rally

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 27, 2004

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two photographers who attended a pro-abortion rally on Friday sponsored by the campaign of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry discussed the event with LifeNews.com. A group of college women were accosted and then dragged away from the event after they led pro-life cheers.

The photographers say abortion advocates tried to prevent them from taking many pictures.

<snip>

The abortion advocates dragged her barefoot over a rough gravel surface that caused her foot to bleed so much that Edmiston required medical attention afterwards.

"I have never been manhandled like that before -- pushed around, shoved and tossed -- it was ridiculous," Edmiston said. "I really felt violated, they had no right to touch me like that. So much for 'my body, my choice.'"

Both Edmiston and Stan Dai, a GWU political science major and a friend of the women, said Priscilla, another pro-life student, was dragged by the strap of a backpack. The strap began to wrap itself around her neck and she began to choke.

Edmiston told LifeNews.com that neither Kerry campaign staff nor security officials stepped in to stop the activists from dragging the students away from the rally.

http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=3299.0;all

[DoYouEverWonder]

Phone Tampering Suspect Stan Dai speaking at the Trinity Intelligence Community Center of Excellence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN9SoAD7Zo8

He sure looks like a true believer for the bogus war on terror.

[elfismiles]

Phone-tampering case: Prank or political spying?

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE, Associated Press Writers Michael Kunzelman And Brett J. Blackledge, Associated Press Writers – Wed Jan 27, 6:40 pm ET
NEW ORLEANS – Was it an attempt at political espionage? Or just a third-rate prank? And was anyone else involved?

In what some Democrats are calling the "Louisiana Watergate," four young conservative activists — one of them a known political prankster — were arrested this week and accused of trying to tamper with the telephones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office.

But two days after their arrest, neither the FBI nor federal prosecutors would say what the defendants were up to or whether they were part of some larger conspiracy.

Authorities said two of the defendants posed as telephone repairmen in hard hats, fluorescent vests and tool belts and asked to see the phones at Landrieu's office; one of them had a tiny camera in his helmet. A third man is alleged to have waited outside in a car with a listening device to pick up transmissions. The fourth, James O'Keefe, used his cell phone to try to capture video of the scene inside, authorities said.

Last year, O'Keefe, a 25-year-old self-described investigative journalist, posed as a pimp in the hidden-camera videos that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN.

Michael Madigan, O'Keefe's lawyer, said Wednesday that his client was not trying to wiretap or interfere with Landrieu's phones, but he would not explain why O'Keefe was there. He also would not say whether O'Keefe was working for someone or was on his own.

"The truth will come out," said Madigan, a Washington lawyer who represented Sen. Howard Baker, the Republican who famously asked during the Watergate investigation, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"

The incident occurred a month after Landrieu announced her support for the Senate health care bill. As the vote neared, conservatives complained they were unable to register protests at her offices because their calls were referred to voice mail boxes that often were full.

"We did hear that complaint, but absolutely at no time did Sen. Landrieu or her staff intentionally avoid phone calls related to health care or any other topic," Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders said Wednesday.

All four men were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, which carries up to 10 years in prison. They were not charged with wiretapping.

Meanwhile, the conservatives who once made O'Keefe their hero for his hidden-camera expose of ACORN distanced themselves from his latest project.

Hannah Giles — who posed as a prostitute for the sting videos, in which ACORN staffers appeared to offer illegal tax advice and support the misuse of public funds — said she was shocked when she heard about O'Keefe's arrest.

"I am well aware that following the law is an integral part of being a good investigative journalist," Giles said in a statement. "I take that responsibility and accountability very seriously. I certainly hope these reports are untrue."

Fox News' Glenn Beck, who made O'Keefe's ACORN expose a national phenomenon by championing the videos, said on his radio show that if the allegations against O'Keefe are true, the young man crossed the line.

"You don't do anything illegal. That's Watergate territory. You just don't do that," Beck said. "But besides that, I don't even think you go dressed up. I mean, it's a senator. For the love of Pete, it's a senator."

All four defendants shared an interest in conservative politics and commentary.

O'Keefe and Joseph Basel, 24, formed their own conservative publications on their college campuses — O'Keefe at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Basel at the University of Minnesota-Morris.

"Joe had a lot of ideas," said Kim Ukura, who founded The Counterweight with Basel and another student in 2005. "He was really excited about the things he wanted to do. He was really passionate about his beliefs, I guess."

A third defendant, Stan Dai, 24, was editor of George Washington University's conservative paper and directed a program aimed at getting college students interested in the intelligence field after 9/11.

The fourth man, Robert Flanagan, 24, wrote for the blog of the New Orleans-based conservative Pelican Institute. Flanagan is the only one of the four from Louisiana. His father is the acting federal prosecutor for western Louisiana.

O'Keefe was a featured speaker at a Pelican Institute luncheon in Louisiana days before his arrest. But institute President Kevin Kane said Wednesday that he had no idea what happened at Landrieu's office or what the four were doing there.

O'Keefe's ACORN videos were first posted on biggovernment.com, run by conservative Andrew Breitbart, and O'Keefe has been a paid contributor to the site. But in an e-mail, Breitbart said: "We have no knowledge about or connection to any alleged acts and events involving James O'Keefe at Senator Mary Landrieu's office."

On his Web site Wednesday, Breitbart also noted that the defendants had not been charged with wiretapping. And he ridiculed the notion that O'Keefe would be "stupid enough to try to `wiretap' a sitting U.S. senator in broad daylight during office hours, while recording the entire sequence of events on his cell phone camera."

Landrieu, who was in Washington at the time, called the plot "unsettling" for her and her staff.

Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan said Republicans once praised O'Keefe as an American hero, "yet today, in light of these deplorable and illegal attacks on the office of a United States senator by their champion, Republicans have not offered a single iota of disgust, a whisper of indignation or even a hint of outrage."

O'Keefe, Basel and Dai would not comment when they went to court Wednesday for pretrial matters. Flanagan was not with them. All four are free on $10,000 bail. They are due back in court Feb. 12.

O'Keefe's father, James O'Keefe Jr. of Westwood, N.J., said he hadn't spoken to his son since his arrest but added: "I know my son. My son wouldn't attempt anything illegal."

___

Associated Press Writers Kevin McGill in New Orleans, Pete Yost in Washington, Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles and Jeff Baenen in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

___

Pelican Institute: http://www.pelicaninstitute.org

BigGovernment.com: http://biggovernment.com

Sen. Mary Landrieu's official site: http://landrieu.senate.gov


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_ ... ce_arrests