Neither report says the interviews on the ACORN undercover operation tapes didn't happen or were false. The Brooklyn DA investigated three ACORN employees who were taped.

The report by House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), which was requested by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, (imagine that) found no instances of ACORN illegally registering individuals to vote, no instances where ACORN violated the terms of federal funding in the last five years, and:

"Concerning recent "sting" operations relating to ACORN, although state laws vary, two relevant states, Maryland and California, "appear to ban private recording of face to face conversations absent the consent of all the participants." Memorandum from the Congressional Research Service to the House Judiciary, "Allegations of Recording Conversations with Various ACORN Affiliated Individuals without Their Consent" (October 9, 2009), at 1."

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/091222.html

"....Congressional Research Service in December, where ACORN’s actions were determined to be less legally objectionable than the actions of O’Keefe and Giles, who likely violated laws in two states banning surreptitious face to face recording."

http://coloradoindependent.com/48555...l-then-and-now

"Less legally objectionable..." The legal objectionable thing that the undercover operations by OKeefe and Giles were taping without consent of all parties in two states."

ACORN Statement by Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes"

Brooklyn, March 1, 2010 - Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today released the following statement:

“On September 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees. The three had been secretly videotaped by two people posing as a pimp and prostitute, who came to ACORN’S Brooklyn office, seeking advice about how to purchase a house with money generated by their ‘business.’ The ‘couple’ later made the recording public. That investigation is now concluded and no criminality has been found.”

http://www.brooklynda.org/



Nothing I read says the tapes were false and the Congressional review doesn't mention anything about editing by OKeefe.