Shades of 'Psycho'

Mitch McConnell versus Mother Jones

By Greg Sargent, WashPost, Updated: April 9, 2013

A remarkable CNN scoop:

The FBI has been asked to investigate how Mother Jones, a liberal magazine, obtained a recording of political aides meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell discussing opposition research on Ashley Judd, McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said Tuesday. 

In the recordings, political operatives huddling at the senator’s campaign headquarters in Kentucky, are heard discussing potentially attacking Judd’s mental health, as well as her left-leaning politics, if she had decided to make a bid against McConnell, who’s running for a sixth term in office next year. 

In a statement, McConnell campaign manager Benton said that “we’ve always said the Left will stop at nothing to attack Sen. McConnell, but Watergate-style tactics to bug campaign headquarters is above and beyond.”

The recordings obtained by Mother Jones are here; they show the McConnell team debating the use of tactics that are nasty but not that unusual by oppo research standards.

(More here.)