Groundswell: A Secret Tape Reveals How It Lobbied Boehner and Issa on Benghazi:
As Mother Jones revealed last week, Groundswell, the hush-hush right-wing strategy group partly led by Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, wanted to hype the Benghazi tragedy into a full-fledged scandal for the Obama administration, as part of its “30 front war" on the president and progressives. 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.I’m going to keep posting this story everywhere until it gains traction.
This is absolutely deplorable and shows who really pulls the strings of the republican party.
We can NOT let them get a pass on this.
Repeat: The wife of a Supreme Court Justice is advising Congressional Republicans on how to trump up a scandal. Conflict of interest much?
Ah, so THAT’S why they never shut up about this damn thing.