FBI Investigates If Mitch McConnell's Conversations About Ashley Judd Were Tapped (DETAILS)

Did this government official just get a dose of his own medicine?

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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign is asking the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office to investigate how Mother Jones Magazine got ahold of a recording of a February strategy session that included talk about potential opponent, actress Ashley Judd.

“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,” McConnell campaign manager Jesse Benton said in a statement. “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.”

Added a source close to the campaign: “We’re going on the assumption that a crime has been committed. No one at the meeting leaked this.”

But what exactly was on the tape that has McConnell’s team in a frenzy?

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Apparently in the audio, which was obtained by the liberal magazine, the staffers talk about researching Judd, who was considering running against the veteran senator in the 2014 Senate race. Needless to say, they weren’t saying really nice things.

The magazine reported that in the Feb. 2 recording, McConnell and his aides were heard considering attacking Judd for “past struggles with depression and for her religious views.”

Someone on the tape is heard saying:

“She’s clearly, this sounds extreme, but she is emotionally unbalanced. I mean it’s been documented. Jesse can go in chapter and verse from her autobiography about, you know, she’s suffered some suicidal tendencies. She was hospitalized for 42 days when she had a mental breakdown in the ’90s.”

McConnell isn’t denying the authenticity of the tapes. Yesterday, private security details swept his offices but did not find the bug, but the team is still not convinced that it may have been an internal leak. 

In an earlier statement, the McConnell campaign accused “the Left” of using “Nixonian tactics” and bugging the campaign’s headquarters.

But the reporter who broke the story is saying that he reached out to McConnell before publishing and he stands by his sources.

David Corn, the Mother Jones reporter who broke the story, stood by his reporting and noted that he repeatedly reached out to the McConnell camp before publication.

“Our lawyers vetted the story,” he told POLITICO. “The story itself says we were provided the tape by a source who wishes to remain anonymous. You know this job. I really can’t say much beyond that.”

Well there you have it! There might be a mole sniffing around McConnell’s offices, don’t you think?

SOURCE: Politico