Mitch Mcconnel Seeks FBI Investigation

[Dusty]

Wonder how this will be reported in the lib-owned
MSM.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...803.html?hp=r2

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign asked the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office on Tuesday to investigate how Mother Jones magazine obtained a recording of a February strategy session.

“Senator McConnell’s campaign is working with the FBI and has notified the local U.S. Attorney in Louisville, per FBI request, about these recordings,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a statement. “Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell’s campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished presumably will be the subject of a criminal investigation.”

Added a source close to the campaign: “We’re going on the assumption that a crime has been committed. No one at the meeting leaked this.”

The McConnell campaign has not offered any direct evidence the recording was the result of an illegal bug.

On Tuesday morning, Mother Jones, a liberal magazine, published an audio recording of McConnell staffers discussing opposition research they could use against actress Ashley Judd, who was considering running against veteran senator in the 2014 Senate race. Judd announced last week that she would not make the race.

The magazine reported that in the Feb. 2 recording, McConnell and his aides were heard considering attacking Judd for “past struggles with depression and for her religious views.”

Someone on the tape is heard saying:

“She’s clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it’s been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she’s suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the ’90s.”

McConnell is not disputing the authenticity of the tape. Yesterday, his campaign offices were swept by a private security detail, which did not find a bug. Still, given that the meeting was attending by only a handful of longtime McConnell insiders, team McConnell is convinced it was not an internal leak. In an earlier statement, the McConnell campaign accused “the Left” of using “Nixonian tactics” and bugging the campaign’s headquarters.

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[MR2]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Wonder how this will be reported in the lib-owned
MSM.

Bush did it...

[SF18C]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Wonder how this will be reported in the lib-owned MSM.

Mean Republicans put down poor Ashley Judd

[afchic]

I am willing to bet it was an inside job.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by afchic

I am willing to bet it was an inside job.

Maybe. Regardless, I just want an investigation done and the results published out in the open. Sort of non-Benghazi-ish.

[Stiletto11]

Remember the song from the Ozark Mountain Daredevils: "If You Want To Get To Heaven." Judd didn't have what it takes.

[Richard]

The veteran senator invokes an old arcade game to describe the campaign’s strategy for dealing with challengers.

“I assume most of you have played the, the game Whac-A-Mole?,” he said to laughter. “This is the Whac-A-Mole period of the campaign…when anybody sticks their head up, do them out."

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Corn stood by the report, noting he contacted McConnell’s reelection campaign, senate office and campaign manager before the story ran.

“Our lawyers vetted the story,” he told POLITICO. “The story itself says we were provided the tape by a source who wishes to remain anonymous. You know this job. I really can’t say much beyond that.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...#ixzz2Q4MsZ6Qm

I agree with afchic - sounds as if the senator needs to be playing a bit of 'Whack A Mole' on his own campaign staff.

Richard