Dems Illegally 'Bug' McConnell Campaign HQ 'Watergate-Style'

[Cade Is Here]

From National Review Online:

Senator Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign says its headquarters have been bugged.

... Earlier today, Mother Jones released audio recordings that feature McConnell aides discussing how actress Ashley Judd, who had been publicly considering running for Senate, had suffered from depression.

According to a McConnell insider, there’s no chance that one of the participants in that meeting leaked the tape. The conference room in which the discussion was held was locked, and it wasn’t a big meeting: Only about six people were present, all longtime McConnell loyalists.

“We’ve always said the Left would stop at nothing to attack Senator McConnell, but Watergate-style tactics to bug campaign headquarters are above and beyond,” said McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton in a statement.

“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,” Benton added. “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.”
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www.ImpeachHimNow.com​

 

[Adre]

Recordings of McConnell should be provided to the sleep deprived. Zzzzzzz.

 

[mercury14]

Read the transcript and you'll understand what shitstains McConnel staffers are. Trashing her for subscribing to St. Francis' nature-based concept of god... Trashing her for getting help for depression in the 90s. Lord help us, we wouldn't want Americans thinking it's okay to seek help if they or their loved ones have mental health problems.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-ashley-judd-secret-tape-senate

 

[blue_pearl_85]

-> There is neither evidence nor credible accusation that the recording was made by a Democratic Party official or employee.

-> There is neither evidence nor credible accusation that all parties of the conversation were unaware that a recording was being made.



And, for that matter... you don't actually know what the Nixon impeachment was about, do you?

 

[bronzeage]

From National Review Online:

Senator Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign says its headquarters have been bugged.

... Earlier today, Mother Jones released audio recordings that feature McConnell aides discussing how actress Ashley Judd, who had been publicly considering running for Senate, had suffered from depression.

According to a McConnell insider, there’s no chance that one of the participants in that meeting leaked the tape. The conference room in which the discussion was held was locked, and it wasn’t a big meeting: Only about six people were present, all longtime McConnell loyalists.

“We’ve always said the Left would stop at nothing to attack Senator McConnell, but Watergate-style tactics to bug campaign headquarters are above and beyond,” said McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton in a statement.

“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,” Benton added. “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.”
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They aren't getting any smarter, are they?

In an age when any cell phone device can record and transmit every voice in the room, why does McConnell think "no one in the room leaked the tape."

Most likely, every person present recorded the meeting, just to have a little leverage when the Attorney General calls them before the Grand Jury.​

 

[bronzeage]

-> There is neither evidence nor credible accusation that the recording was made by a Democratic Party official or employee.

-> There is neither evidence nor credible accusation that all parties of the conversation were unaware that a recording was being made.



And, for that matter... you don't actually know what the Nixon impeachment was about, do you?

Cade is on disability. Before his tragic file cabinet accident, he was a clerk for the Department of Because You'll Believe Anything. He's not really strong on history.

 

[KyleW]

Read the transcript and you'll understand what shitstains McConnel staffers are. Trashing her for subscribing to St. Francis' nature-based concept of god... Trashing her for getting help for depression in the 90s. Lord help us, we wouldn't want Americans thinking it's okay to seek help if they or their loved ones have mental health problems.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-ashley-judd-secret-tape-senate

That's neither here nor there. What matters is who made the recording.

The huge problem is that it is so simple to record conversations these days. With no current evidence, unless someone is dumb and brags about it to someone else, they will never know.

 

[BlueEyesInLevis]

The hypocrisy is just too rich here! GOP bugging bad Democrat bugging good. Makes sense

 

[lilsarah91]

And when his office was swept for bugs by the FBI, Guess what! They found Jack and Shit! There was no bug, it was an unnamed staffer with an iPod.

 

[eyer]

Read the transcript and you'll understand what shitstains McConnel staffers are. Trashing her for subscribing to St. Francis' nature-based concept of god... Trashing her for getting help for depression in the 90s. Lord help us, we wouldn't want Americans thinking it's okay to seek help if they or their loved ones have mental health problems.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-ashley-judd-secret-tape-senate

You're such an overtly pitiful piece of political partisan cat crap...

...thank God the staff of whomever the Dems choose to run against McConnel won't stoop to such a gutter level to research and discuss any and all political vulnerabilities he presents.

And you have no hesitation in going after an equally partisan hack like vette when he posts the same kind of childishly-biased dribble?

Big friggin' surprise...

 

[dan_c00000]

Meanwhile a real source reports the truth:

The tape, which according to Mother Jones was recorded on February 2 and provided to the publication by a source who required anonymity, captures the senator's aides discussing opposition research on Ashley Judd, the actress and activist who was at the time considering challenging McConnell for his Senate seat.

Mother Jones released a statement noting that while the publication was "not involved in the making of the tape," it was "our understanding that the tape was not the product of a Watergate-style bugging operation."

 

[koalabear]

Read the transcript and you'll understand what shitstains McConnel staffers are. Trashing her for subscribing to St. Francis' nature-based concept of god... Trashing her for getting help for depression in the 90s. Lord help us, we wouldn't want Americans thinking it's okay to seek help if they or their loved ones have mental health problems.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-ashley-judd-secret-tape-senate

*views post*

oops, slipping on the wrong tab again.

 

[phrodeau]

They aren't getting any smarter, are they?

In an age when any cell phone device can record and transmit every voice in the room, why does McConnell think "no one in the room leaked the tape."

Most likely, every person present recorded the meeting, just to have a little leverage when the Attorney General calls them before the Grand Jury.

The fools should have used the Cone of Silence.

 

[mercury14]

You're such an overtly pitiful piece of political partisan cat crap...

...thank God the staff of whomever the Dems choose to run against McConnel won't stoop to such a gutter level to research and discuss any and all political vulnerabilities he presents.

And you have no hesitation in going after an equally partisan hack like vette when he posts the same kind of childishly-biased dribble?

Big friggin' surprise...

Do democrats plot to exploit someone's past history of getting help for depression? I can't think of any instances when they have.

Vette doesn't post mere partisan drivel, he parrots outright pants-on-fire lies. The fact that they get dis-proven makes him believe the lies even more. Do you see me doing this?

 

[KyleW]

Do democrats plot to exploit someone's past history of getting help for depression? I can't think of any instances when they have.

Vette doesn't post mere partisan drivel, he parrots outright pants-on-fire lies. The fact that they get dis-proven makes him believe the lies even more. Do you see me doing this?

Maybe they do and maybe they don't. It does not matter. Dems do a good amount of mud slinging during campaigns. The content of the recording is irrelevant. Is it mean spirited? Yes. Is it douchebaggery? Yes. So what?

The real issue is that the recording took place at all. Maybe a dem did it or repub or random asshole opportunist. Whoever did it needs to answer for it.

 

[Busybody]

Do democrats plot to exploit someone's past history of getting help for depression? I can't think of any instances when they have.

Vette doesn't post mere partisan drivel, he parrots outright pants-on-fire lies. The fact that they get dis-proven makes him believe the lies even more. Do you see me doing this?

they MADE fun of DRESSAGE and A Romneys MS......right?


they MADE fun of McConnells WIFES etchnic background, RIGHT?


STFU

SUCK OBAMA PUSSY

 

[mercury14]

they MADE fun of DRESSAGE and A Romneys MS......right?


they MADE fun of McConnells WIFES etchnic background, RIGHT?


STFU

SUCK OBAMA PUSSY

Which official Democratic campaign staffers did that?

 

[Liar]

The hypocrisy is just too rich here! GOP bugging bad Democrat bugging good. Makes sense

Bugging bad. Only one that talks about bugging though is a turtle boy staffer. I'll bet they were #bugged just as much as Anthony Weiner's Twitter was #hacked. We'll see.

 

[Busybody]

Which official Democratic campaign staffers did that?

STFU, with your BS


and go back t BLAMING ROMNEY for 1 womens DEATH

 

[Busybody]

“Mother Jones either published audio which was illegally recorded or endorsed @JamesOKeefeIII’s style of journalism.” Not to mention, “Hypocrisy: Mother Jones Writer Behind McConnell Bugging Railed Against Bush Wiretapping.”

 

[Busybody]

HYPOCRISY: Mother Jones Writer Behind McConnell Bugging Railed Against Bush Wiretapping

The who wrote the paragraph below took a bold stand against the conversations of American Citizens being "listened in on," without their knowledge or consent--even if it is being done because of national security.

It's not every day a former deputy attorney general testifies that the White House violated the law--and did so knowingly. But that seemed to happen this morning when former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified before the Senate judiciary committee about the once-secret NSA warrantless wiretapping program that targeted citizens and residents in the United States.
Today, that same man, David Corn of Mother Jones published a secretly (and possibly illegally) taped conversation between a US Senator and his campaign operatives. That Secretly taped conversation had nothing to do with national security because as he has stated above listening in for national security---bad. Listening in for political reasons---good!

In August 2006 David Corn wrote in The Nation that Bush's wireless program for national security was an example of of his "view of expansive (even Supreme presidential power)

For months, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other administration aides have been defending--even championing--what they call the "terrorist surveillance program," under which the National Security Agency can intercept communications that involve an American citizen or resident without a warrant if one party to the communication is overseas and suspected of being linked to anti-American terrorists). They have maintained that the president has the authority as commander in chief to authorize such surveillance. Though the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) generally forbids wiretapping without warrants, the White House has contended that Bush is not bound by the limitations of that law. This claim--arising from the Bush administration's view of expansive (even supreme) presidential power--set up a constitutional clash. And in the first round of the legal battle, Judge Taylor has knocked out the White House argument.


The audio tape released by Mr. Corn today was really much ado about nothing. Is anybody really shocked that a political candidate will use an opponent's own public statements about their mental illness and issues against them? How Shocking. What we do learn from Corn today is that secretly taping political conversations---very good, but secretly taping conversations for national security---very, very bad.

In the same 2006 article from The Nation Corn said this about a judge striking down Bush's wiretaps.

Weeks before he took office in 2001, Bush quipped, "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." Democracy, though, is not easy. And a commander in chief has to abide by the rules, as various courts have now ruled. The administration's King George approach to governance has taken another blow. But it's royally unlikely this president is going to accept the decision and give up his claim to the throne.
In September of 2012 David Corn obtained a secretly taped video (by Jimmy Carter's grandson) of Mitt Romney talking to campaign contributors. Corn and his progressive cohorts were able to make great use of Romney telling contributors that he didn't have to care about the 47% who don't pay taxes. Now Romney was talking about not having to care about trying to get their votes but Corn used it to imply Romney wouldn't care about them if he was president.

That secret video was OK because it was only about politics, it had nothing to do with national security.

In September 2006 President Bush spoke to the UN General Assembly. In his speech the president mentioned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN in 1948. Writing in the Huffington Post, Corn pointed out all the ways he believed that Bush was ignoring that declaration including:


No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Bush keeps insisting on the right to wiretap people--including American citizens (under certain circumstances)--without a warrant, not even a secret warrant. As for the right not to have one's honor and reputation assailed, the drafters of this declaration must have forgotten to put in a clause exempting the targets of political campaigns.You see---it's in his own words--Corn believes the UN forgot to put in a clause exempting the targets of political campaigns.

I have to apologize to Corn, he is not being a hypocrite...he is executing the meaning of the UN Declaration of Human Rights you cannot secretly tape people except when you want to slander them politically. Well at least we now know his motivation.

 

[Busybody]

Do democrats plot to exploit someone's past history of getting help for depression? I can't think of any instances when they have.

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did you forget what YOU said about R Santoreum in 2012?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Thank Gawd!


It's about time someone exposed those radical extremist Kooky Kristian Klansmen!!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The hypocrisy is just too rich here! GOP bugging bad Democrat bugging good. Makes sense

A_J's corollary #9, “When a Republican does it, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, when a Democrat does it, then it is, *shrug*, they ALL do it...”

 

[mercury14]

A_J's corollary #9, “When a Republican does it, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, when a Democrat does it, then it is, *shrug*, they ALL do it...”

If Democrats bugged the office that's very very bad. But it sounds like the only evidence of bugging is, well nothing.