Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence community
Landrieu phone plot: Men arrested have links to intelligence community
By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 — 10:54 am
WASHINGTON — Two of the three men arrested on Monday along with “ACORN pimp” James O’Keefe for “maliciously tampering” with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) phones in her New Orleans office have ties to the United States intelligence community.
The three accused by the FBI of “aiding and abetting” O’Keefe are Stan Dai, Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel. O’Keefe is 25, and the other three are 24.
Dai’s links to the intelligence community appear to be particularly strong. He was a speaker at Georgetown University’s Central Intelligence Agency summer school program in June 2009, and is also listed as an Assistant Director at the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity in D.C.
The university’s president Patricia McGuire told The Associated Press that it promoted careers in intelligence but denied that it trains students to be spies.
The Trinity program received a “$250,000 renewable grant from the U.S. Intelligence Community” upon launching in 2004, according to its Web site. The program’s goals are stated:
24 year old Robert Flanagan, son of the acting US Attorney for
Western LA, William Flanagan (Senator Vitter Held Up Acting U.S.
Attorney Flanagan’s Replacement) will more than likely get a plea
deal and turn on The other three, too bad.