McConnell accuses Dems of bugging his office

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Mitch McConnell seeks FBI investigation - Lois Romano and Kevin Robillard - POLITICO.com

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.”

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.

David Corn, the Mother Jones reporter who broke the story, stood by his reporting and noted that he repeatedly reached out to the McConnell camp before publication.

“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.”

 

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Here is the Mother Jones article which led McConnell to claim his office was bugged: Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed Using Judd's Mental Health and Religion as Political Ammo | Mother Jones

It reveals McConnell is willing to stoop as low as it takes to win. Very revealing information about his true nature and his willingness to assassinate the character of an opponent in true ad hominem fallacy fashion.

Mother Jones is denying his office was bugged. McConnell is asking the FBI to investigate, and he is going to look even worse if the recording came from one of his staffers. This could be McConnell's version of Romney's 47 percent video.

It also appears McConnell and his staff are ignorant of some religious references to Saint Francis and thought Ashley Judd's references to "Brother Donkey" were the best ammo they had against her, not realizing that is how St. Francis referred to himself. So I guess McConnell and his people are faux religious people.

Mother Jones:

Before posting this article, we contacted his Senate office and his campaign office—in particular, his campaign manager, Jesse Benton—and no one responded. As the story makes clear, we were recently provided the tape by a source who wished to remain anonymous. We were not involved in the making of the tape, but we published a story on the tape due to its obvious newsworthiness. It is our understanding that the tape was not the product of a Watergate-style bugging operation. We cannot comment beyond that.

 

[Little-Acorn]

It reveals McConnell is willing to stoop as low as it takes to win. Very revealing information about his true nature and his willingness to assassinate the character of an opponent in true ad hominem fallacy fashion.

What's next? Is he going to accuse a candidate of being a felon? What kind of lowlife sleaze would stoop so low?

Thread title: McConnell accuses Dems of bugging his office

BTW, McConnell didn't accuse Dems of bugging his office. He said someone bugged his office.

Democrats immediately jumped up and said, "He means us!"

I guess they have reason.

 

[g5000]

It reveals McConnell is willing to stoop as low as it takes to win. Very revealing information about his true nature and his willingness to assassinate the character of an opponent in true ad hominem fallacy fashion.

What's next? Is he going to accuse a candidate of being a felon? What kind of lowlife sleaze would stoop so low?

Thread title: McConnell accuses Dems of bugging his office

BTW, McConnell didn't accuse Dems of bugging his office. He said someone bugged his office.

Democrats immediately jumped up and said, "He means us!"

I guess they have reason.

I guess you did not actually read the OP or the article:

In an earlier statement, the McConnell campaign accused “the Left” of using “Nixonian tactics” and bugging the campaign’s headquarters.

 

[nodoginnafight]

Since when is Mother Jones the same as "the Dems?"
dishonest headline.

 

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“We’ve always said the left will stop at nothing to attack Sen. McConnell, but Nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said Tuesday.

Read more: Secret recording of McConnell meeting 'Nixonian tactics' | The Daily Caller

 

[Glensather]

Since when is Mother Jones the same as "the Dems?"
dishonest headline.

Ever since "47%"

 

[Black_Label]

McConnell like all right wingers is a dickhead. He was caught discussing the dirty tricks he was going to us, then gets butthurt when one of his inner circle blew the whistle on that piece of shit.

Now he's doing what all right wingers do when they screw up, cry tinfoil and blame "the left"

 

[g5000]

Since when is Mother Jones the same as "the Dems?"
dishonest headline.

Are you guys blind?

Once again:

In an earlier statement, the McConnell campaign accused “the Left” of using “Nixonian tactics” and bugging the campaign’s headquarters.

Whoever made the recording gave it to Mother Jones. McConnell's office is assuming it was made by "the Left".

 

[Sallow]

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Mitch McConnell seeks FBI investigation - Lois Romano and Kevin Robillard - POLITICO.com

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.”

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.

David Corn, the Mother Jones reporter who broke the story, stood by his reporting and noted that he repeatedly reached out to the McConnell camp before publication.

“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.”

Shades of Karl Rove.



He should have been arrested for that crap.

 

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If Judd had run, you know darn well there would be topics right here on this forum whose origins would have come straight from these oppo meetings via The Daily Caller, CNS News, Fox News, and the Washington Times. The parroting minions would have blindly obeyed, and copied and pasted that shit in large quantities.

It's nice to have a glimpse at a source of the river of shit, eh?

 

[ba1614]

If Judd had run, you know darn well there would be topics right here on this forum whose origins would have come straight from these oppo meetings via The Daily Caller, CNS News, Fox News, and the Washington Times. The parroting minions would have blindly obeyed, and copied and pasted that shit in large quantities.

It's nice to have a glimpse at a source of the river of shit, eh?

Are seriously naive enough to think these kind of conversations don't take place behind democrat doors?

 

[Sallow]

If Judd had run, you know darn well there would be topics right here on this forum whose origins would have come straight from these oppo meetings via The Daily Caller, CNS News, Fox News, and the Washington Times. The parroting minions would have blindly obeyed, and copied and pasted that shit in large quantities.

It's nice to have a glimpse at a source of the river of shit, eh?

Of course they would have.

And McConnell is a scumbag that deserves his walking papers.

 

[nodoginnafight]

Since when is Mother Jones the same as "the Dems?"
dishonest headline.

Are you guys blind?

Once again:

In an earlier statement, the McConnell campaign accused “the Left” of using “Nixonian tactics” and bugging the campaign’s headquarters.

Whoever made the recording gave it to Mother Jones. McConnell's office is assuming it was made by "the Left".

OP's headline says "Dems"
Not all on the left are "Dems"
Not all on the right are "Repubs"

That's the same as saying Rush Limbaugh IS the right

 

[g5000]

If Judd had run, you know darn well there would be topics right here on this forum whose origins would have come straight from these oppo meetings via The Daily Caller, CNS News, Fox News, and the Washington Times. The parroting minions would have blindly obeyed, and copied and pasted that shit in large quantities.

It's nice to have a glimpse at a source of the river of shit, eh?

Are seriously naive enough to think these kind of conversations don't take place behind democrat doors?

Nope. I'm sure they do.

 

[g5000]

If Judd had run, you know darn well there would be topics right here on this forum whose origins would have come straight from these oppo meetings via The Daily Caller, CNS News, Fox News, and the Washington Times. The parroting minions would have blindly obeyed, and copied and pasted that shit in large quantities.

It's nice to have a glimpse at a source of the river of shit, eh?

Of course they would have.

And McConnell is a scumbag that deserves his walking papers.

McConnell is everything that is wrong with the Republican Party. He's the biggest lying, hypocritical coward of the entire pack of lying, hypocritical cowards that are the GOP today.

 

[Antares]

Translation: "How dare they use the truth on Judd".

Moron.

Here is the Mother Jones article which led McConnell to claim his office was bugged: Secret Tape: McConnell and Aides Weighed Using Judd's Mental Health and Religion as Political Ammo | Mother Jones

It reveals McConnell is willing to stoop as low as it takes to win. Very revealing information about his true nature and his willingness to assassinate the character of an opponent in true ad hominem fallacy fashion.

Mother Jones is denying his office was bugged. McConnell is asking the FBI to investigate, and he is going to look even worse if the recording came from one of his staffers. This could be McConnell's version of Romney's 47 percent video.

It also appears McConnell and his staff are ignorant of some religious references to Saint Francis and thought Ashley Judd's references to "Brother Donkey" were the best ammo they had against her, not realizing that is how St. Francis referred to himself. So I guess McConnell and his people are faux religious people.

Mother Jones:

Before posting this article, we contacted his Senate office and his campaign office—in particular, his campaign manager, Jesse Benton—and no one responded. As the story makes clear, we were recently provided the tape by a source who wished to remain anonymous. We were not involved in the making of the tape, but we published a story on the tape due to its obvious newsworthiness. It is our understanding that the tape was not the product of a Watergate-style bugging operation. We cannot comment beyond that.

 

[Antares]

Naa, I would have used her autobiography, it shows she has mental health problems and is unfit to serve.

If Judd had run, you know darn well there would be topics right here on this forum whose origins would have come straight from these oppo meetings via The Daily Caller, CNS News, Fox News, and the Washington Times. The parroting minions would have blindly obeyed, and copied and pasted that shit in large quantities.

It's nice to have a glimpse at a source of the river of shit, eh?

 

[S.J.]

G. Gordon Liddy went to prison for doing that. Should the Democrats be held to the same standard if the perpetrator is caught?

 

[MeBelle]

I guess you did not actually read the OP or the article:

In an earlier statement, the McConnell campaign accused “the Left” of using “Nixonian tactics” and bugging the campaign’s headquarters.

Secret recording of McConnell meeting ?Nixonian tactics? | The Daily Caller

Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign is decrying “Nixonian tactics” after the liberal bimonthly Mother Jones posted a secret recording of the Senate minority leader and staffers discussing campaign strategies against potential rivals in the Kentucky Senate race.

“We’ve always said the left will stop at nothing to attack Sen. McConnell, but Nixonian tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said Tuesday.

The left-leaning Mother Jones website — known for also posting a secret recording of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney — released recordings and a transcript of a February 2 McConnell meeting with his staff on opposition research.

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According to this, McConnell is clearly referring to Mother Jones, not the Dem party.