ACORN Sues James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles And Andrew Breitbart

ACORN has filed suit against James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and Andrew Breitbart. Technically speaking, the film makers may have violated the law and as such, may actually lose the case. I can not help feel like this is part of a trap though. The film makers have been a few steps ahead of ACORN and have not only expressed no fear from a law suit but actually dared ACORN to sue. The trap here may be a trade off between what ever the (hopefully) minuscule punishment is for illegally recording someone against the use of discovery to find out even more damming things to use to bring down ACORN.

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/23/breaking-acorn-sues-hidden-camera-filmmakers

"Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.

The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to create sound recordings."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9AT8VMO4&show_article=1

"The two employees seen in the video were fired after it was posted online. The lawsuit says the employees, Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams, suffered "extreme emotional distress."

The multimillion-dollar lawsuit seeks damages from James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, who played the pimp and prostitute in the videos, and from conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart, who posted the videos on his Web site."

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