A generation ago, this led to the downfall of a presidency. I wonder how deep the threads run on this caper. More importantly, will the media seize upon it with the same intensity that they did forty years ago. I seriously doubt it.
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.”
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The McConnell campaign has not offered any direct evidence the recording was the result of an illegal bug.
The FBI office in Louisville, Ky. confirmed McConnell’s office had
contacted them and that the bureau was looking into the matter.
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.
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