{"id":11117,"date":"2010-05-28T07:24:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2010-05-28T07:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T12:24:20","slug":"slime-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11117","title":{"rendered":"Slime Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leftyblog community is turning cartwheels because James O&#8217;Keefe pled guilty to his phone shenanigans in Mary Landrieu&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>But as with pretty\u00a0 much everything you read on leftyblogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2010\/05\/28\/exclusive-court-document-reveals-governments-admission-that-it-lacked-evidence-that-okeefe-intended-to-commit-felony-a-fact-the-government-omitted-from-its-press-release\/\">the facts are wrong<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana has filed a court document <strong>admitting that James O\u2019Keefe did not intend to tamper with the phones at Mary Landrieu\u2019s office, or commit any other felony<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh \u2014 and the good folks at the Department of Justice <strong>don\u2019t particularly want you to know that<\/strong>. This post reveals that, at O\u2019Keefe\u2019s hearing, the Assistant U.S. Attorney tried not to read that part of the document in court. What\u2019s more, the U.S. Attorney pointedly omitted this critical information from their press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the part that the press carries is, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=news&amp;oi=news_result&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CD4QqQIwAQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F201005270015&amp;ei=r7X_S9LIIqS8M6X9xDs&amp;usg=AFQjCNGNQs2unnWAFsg9a3NXK20EMRaiaw&amp;sig2=9we7YpzrtycqVNLzEPoGog\">the only reality <\/a>the lefty smear machine cares about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>his <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ericboehlert\">Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leftyblog community is turning cartwheels because James O&#8217;Keefe pled guilty to his phone shenanigans in Mary Landrieu&#8217;s office. But as with pretty\u00a0 much everything you read on leftyblogs, the facts are wrong: The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana has filed a court document admitting that James O\u2019Keefe did not intend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11119,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions\/11119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}