Posted on 04/12/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
April 12, 2013
* Potential suspect was longtime Democratic insider, despite party's claim it was blindsided by investigation
* Liberal magazine that published recording may have received the product of a federal wiretapping felony
David Martosko
The activists who allegedly recorded a private conversation among members of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's re-election team are tied to a liberal political action committee whose co-founder was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
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The Daily Caller reported that Reilly was a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. It cited a Huffington Post story which noted that before he co-founded Progress Kentucky, Reilly 'was a member of the executive committee of the state Democratic Party.'
'Although Reilly appears to be a member of the Democratic Party establishment,' the Caller reported, 'media outlets are now propagating a version of the illegal bugging story in which Democratic officials claim to have been blindsided by a scandal foisted on them by an unaccountable outside group.'
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Mother Jones magazine, the non-profit liberal magazine that published the recording, may be in legal jeopardy - or in danger of losing its tax-exempt status - if it's determined that the tape was made illegally. It's a crime in Kentucky to record or publish the contents of a private conversation unless all its participants consent. And crossing state lines with such a recording, an FBI source told MailOnline on condition of anonymity, is a 'slam-dunk federal case.'
Mother Jones is headquartered in California. David Corn, the reporter who broke the story, is based in Washington, D.C...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Democrat=Criminal
Nothing new.
“or in danger of losing its tax-exempt status”
That should have been done long ago
Anyone remember offhand how many years G. Gordon Kiddy served for the same thing?
How did that old tag line come back???
And where is the Bernstein and Woodward to disgrace the Kenyan POSOTUS out of the White Hut?
Rhetorical question. There is none.
This is the same guy who launched a racist attack against McConnell’s Asian American wife.
AND got his roommate killed while tailing “suspicious” people, ala George Zimmerman, a few years back.
The folks behind this are also RUNNING ADVERTISING on the local news linking background checks to Al quieda’s proaganda...gee advertising to hurt a republican who thought of that? I’ve been SCREAMING for months that advertising is how you get the attention of the low info voter. Obambi’s ratings are in the 40s they could be in the 30s if you ran advertising about ethanol, cost of food, cost of gasoline 4 years ago and today. But our side waits till 6 months before elections to try to change minds...too late.
Four and a half years actual time served. He was originally sentenced to twenty years.
It’s a good one.
lets switch parties and political groups and the corrupt lapdog media will be running with this for weeks but seeing as it’s their messiah and who they voted for then nothing from them
If it wasn’t for double standards, the Obama media would have no standards at all.
You are 100% correct. This would really make a difference!
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
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