Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's reelection campaign is calling on the FBI to investigate how liberal magazine Mother Jones obtained an audio recording of a private campaign strategy session, reports CNN's Political Ticker blog:
In the recordings, political operatives huddling at the senator's campaign headquarters in Kentucky, are heard discussing potentially attacking [Ashley] 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.
"Obviously a recording device of some kind was placed in Senator McConnell's campaign office without consent. By whom and how that was accomplished will presumably be the subject of a criminal investigation," Benton said in a statement.
"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," Benton also said.
David Corn, the author of the piece attacking McConnell's campaign, previously revealed a hidden recording of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney telling donors that 47 percent of the country "will vote for the president no matter what" because they rely on government handouts.