http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/republicans-threaten-legal-action-over-mcconnell-recording----heres-why-they-may-be-out-of-luck.php?ref=fpa
Republicans are sufficiently outraged by the leaked recording of one of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s private re-election strategy sessions that they’ve characterized it as a crime.
But according to privacy law experts, and legal experts in Kentucky, the question of whether the person who recorded the meeting committed a crime turns entirely on whether he or she was an invited participant.McConnell himself claimed he’d been “bugged” in a “Nixonian” fashion. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, suggested in a statement that the audio recording was the result of “illegal acts.”“What happened in #KYSEN a serious crime, & whomever responsible will face prison time,” tweetedNational Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brad Dayspring.
is he more outraged because it happened or that he was Romneyfied, they never learn he should not say things because there is no more privacy.
Romney 47% should have been a heads up to the bigots that if you want to practice your hate write it down pass it around then burn it and scatter the ashes.
“Both Kentucky and the federal wiretap act are one-party consent statutes,” said Jeff Hermes, director of the Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University. “If the recording was made by a party to the conversation, even if it was made secretly, that person won’t be liable under state or federal law. If it was a bug that was placed, or hidden by someone who wasn’t a party to the conversation, then there’s both potential civil and criminal liability.”
it really doesn't matter who did it as long as it got out to the people, outrage in the midst of skulduggery really is a little disengenuous. and his wife thing just trying to embellish his claim of being attacked. his struff is ragedy and he knows it sympathy vote won't do it this time.
