SECRET AUDIOTAPE REVEALS: Groundswell Group Stoked Scandals with Help From GOP Leaders

[kpete]

A secret audio tape of one of Groundswell's weekly meetings shows that prominent members of the group pressed House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chair of the House oversight committee, to expand the Benghazi investigation and make this supposed scandal a top-priority for congressional Republicans. This recording indicates Groundswell's mission extends beyond message coordination to scandal-stoking.
MORE:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/groundswell-secret-tape-boehner-issa-benghazi

July 30, 2013 07:00 AM
Groundswell Group Stoked Scandals with Help From GOP Leaders
By karoli

When David Corn broke the Groundswell story last week, the general reaction among the politerati was a shrug and a giggle. Even influential NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen called it "no big deal."

But audio of a May Groundswell meeting obtained by C&L from a source who wishes to remain anonymous reveals Groundswellers met with top Congressional leaders to lobby for a select committee endowed with subpoena power to investigate the White House. Lobbying may be too mild a term, since they really are plotting with those same leaders to invent very real scandals with very real investigations in order to sink the country into a mire of inaction and sabotage the remaining years of President Obama's term.

Messaging is a part of their activity, but there is also an entire set of marching orders and demands made by this group and granted by Congressional leadership. It isn't limited to the Benghazi 'scandal', and it may not be limited to Congress.


AUDIO TAPE & WAY MORE:
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/groundswell-group-plotted-scandals-congress

and HERE:
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/groundswell-secret-tape-boehner-issa-benghazi

[longship]

1. David Corn doing good again.

I love just about everything about him.

R&

[railsback]

2. Its a shame there's no audio of Boehner and Issa

No one is going to question those two if there's no audio. They'll just deny it and be on their way.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. K&R

[Cha]

4. Does anyone know how David Corn got the

documents and the tape?

Groundsmellers were tossing around the idea of calling themselves Frederick Douglas(sic) Republicans.. I say go for it. rofl.

mahalo kpete

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

[hue]

6. K&R!!! I'll bet much more of this goes on that doesn't see the light of day...

[Volaris]

7. What the hell is WRONG with these people???

Oh wait, I remember now. They want to be like Liberals, and think that by having a little "meeting" about how to get shit done, they can influence their idea of "progress" (SEE:Retrograde) in the Government.

Too fucking bad that they suck at it, because they forget that in order to think like, and BEHAVE LIKE, and be as EFFECTIVE AS "teh gayz", or whoever else they think is running the Liberal Agenda now. they actually have to BE LIBERAL, and unless that happens by some Miracle of Christ, they will just keep failing.

Oh well, the more they try, the more they will keep failing, and in the process, exposing themselves for the Facists they really are.

[Quantess]

8. K & R

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. I just sent this as a LTE to a reputable newspaper