(THE HILL) Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday accused a Kentucky Democratic super-PAC of bugging his campaign office and asked the FBI to investigate.
McConnell lashed out at the group Progress Kentucky after the release of a leaked recording from a Feb. 2 meeting between the senator and his aides in which they debate the merits of attacking actress Ashley Judd’s mental health, views on religion and attitudes about family.
"As I indicated, last month they were attacking my wife's ethnicity, and apparently also bugging my headquarters, much like Nixon and Watergate," McConnell said to reporters on Tuesday.
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