Any Congressman who doesn’t assume he is being recorded in their DC office is foolish.
Such talks need to held in random, secure locations. With no interns or junior staff present.
Campaign meetings should be held randomly?
If that's true I'd hate to think where real security meetings should be held...in Starbucks?
I spent a lot of time working in DC, none of it unfortunately as a Congressional Staffer. Sure these Republican SOBs occasionally talk a good game, but when it comes to hiring the actual troopers who really run congress, writing the bills they never read for example, they reach across the aisle. The machinery of government is securely in Democrat hands, has been since the mid-thirties. I go-ron-tee that Mitch McConnell's office and staffs are dominated by Democrats. Mitch himself is no villain. He's a big lumbering round-heeled marshmallow and a passed master at backroom deals that protect and reward his major contributors. As long as the swag is right, these RINOs actually don't give a rat's patoot what the Democrats do. The Republican Party is all about safe seats; seats at the table where the loot is divvied up.
Team Obama herds them like the sheep that they are into one blind alley after another.