Andrew Breitbart Brings Back The Days Of Investigative Reporting

Andrew Breitbart’s website BigGovernment.com has posted a story about the San Deigo chapter of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN).  In October of this year, California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that he would be investigating the activities of ACORN in California as a result of the videos made by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles showing ACORN’s willingness to help them engage in illegal activities.  After the videos were released, ACORN fired some employees and said that they would cooperate fully with any investigation. 

The article at BigGovernment.com points out:

“Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club.

“Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.”

“Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think they really understand what’s going on.””

While claiming to cooperate with the investigation, the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) dumped thousands of sensitive documents on October 9th, just days before the Attorney General was scheduled to visit their office.  The documents were dumped into a public dumpster, with no regard for privacy or issues regarding employment documents. 

Derrick Roach at BigGovernment.com reports:

“I am a local licensed private investigator. I took it upon myself to keep an eye on what the local ACORN office was up to, in light of the release of the undercover videos. I retrieved these documents from the public dumpster.”

He has posted copies of some of the documents at the link cited above.  He has also pledged that if the Attorney General of California does not properly investigate ACORN’s activities, citizen journalists will.  Thank you, Mr. Roach.