McCaskill Demands Investigation into Exposure of Her Planned Parenthood Ties

National Review ^ | October 18, 2018 | JACK CROWE

[reaganaut1]

Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri has demanded that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate a sting operation that exposed previously secret alleged ties to Planned Parenthood and various gun-control-advocacy groups.

McCaskill’s campaign manager David Kirby called on her Republican Senate challenger Josh Hawley, the sitting Missouri attorney general, to appoint a special prosecutor to launch an investigation into the video-surveillance operation that captured her staffers discussing tactics used to conceal Planned Parenthood’s financial support for their campaign.

“We have reason to believe that fraud has been committed against our campaign,” Kirby told reporters Wednesday. “There’s no question that the videos were captured under false pretenses and misrepresentations, which under Missouri law is fraud.”

McCaskill accused Hawley of participating in the sting operation during a Tuesday television appearance.

“It is startling that Josh Hawley would be part of fraudulently embedding somebody in my campaign,” McCaskill told KOLR-10 in Springfield, Missouri on Tuesday.

Hawley, who previously denied participating in the operation, dismissed the notion of a possible investigation in a response posted to Twitter Wednesday.

In the secretly captured surveillance video, released Wednesday by the controversial right-wing investigative group Project Veritas, McCaskill campaign staffer Nicholas Starost explained that Planned Parenthood secretly funnels donations to the senator to avoid the scrutiny of Missouri’s conservative electorate.

“They go through other means to get us that money,” Starost says while being recorded on a hidden camera. “They specifically will not donate to us.”

“It’s f**king beautiful. It’s great when it works for us and not against us, let’s be honest,” he adds.

“It’s not that they don’t support Claire, it’s because they know it’s a tough state to win for a Democrat,” explains another staffer.

[Deplorable American1776]

Translation: ‘I didn’t know it was being recorded! If I knew, I would not say that!’

[Secret Agent Man]

Investigative journalism is not fraud.

[RitaOK]

<<<” She’d be better off just laughing it off. So what. “ >>

Yes, she would. Otherwise, you have to wonder why is this little event anyone’s problem other than hers?? Let her go call the dox cops. She’s the one belly aching about “fraud”, after all.

[Kickaha]

Maybe she and Heidi can get a morning show on MSNLSD. They can call it Heidi an’ Her, or Ma and Them, or Heidi, Ho, Neighbor, or Two Loser Tellin’ Their Truth, or McCaskill and Such, or Two Sisters of Many Mothers. Ok, sorry, I’m reaching now.

[Mercat]

In Missouri, an individual who is a party to a wire communication, or who has the consent of one of the parties to the communication, can lawfully record it or disclose its contents, unless the person is intercepting the communication for the purpose of committing a criminal or tortious act. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 542.402. Recording or disclosing the contents of a wire communication by all other persons is a felony.

Anyone whose communications have been recorded or disclosed in violation of the law can bring a civil suit to recover the greater of actual damages, $100 a day for each day of violation or $1,000, and can recover punitive damages, attorney fees and litigation costs as well. Mo. Rev. Stat. § 542.418.

[Cyclone59]

“It is startling that Josh Hawley would be part of fraudulently embedding somebody in my campaign,” McCaskill told KOLR-10 in Springfield, Missouri on Tuesday.

serves her right, karma is a bitch. Remember what she did to affect the primary that made it easier for her to win her last election. Hawley made a comment, on the local news here, to the effect of "if you have proof, bring it on". As much as I don't like Hawley, I sure as hell aint voting for Claire.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””We have reason to believe that fraud has been committed”””

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Pot calling the kettle black my dear Claire.

[Retvet]

She’s as bad as Hillary! Maybe worse.

[Neidermeyer]

I hope they didn’t break any laws in secretly recording people. Anybody familiar with the state’s laws concerning this?
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I understand that it wasn’t one on one but that at least 3 people , a group , was present when the recordings were made,, I can record anything in any state under those conditions.

[DouglasKC]

Claire, please spend the rest of the campaign complaining about how your campaign was tricked into telling the truth.

Yeah her opponent has to get on this if he hasn't already. Why is she so upset for showing a little honesty?

[AlaskaErik]

Has this had any impact on her poll numbers?

[familyop]

From what I understand, it’s legal if the person doing the recording is present. That, by the way, is how undercover officers have obtained some of the evidence to bust many drug dealers (with their own recorded words).

[trebb]

“We have reason to believe that fraud has been committed against our campaign,” Kirby told reporters Wednesday. “There’s no question that the videos were captured under false pretenses and misrepresentations, which under Missouri law is fraud.”

Then maybe they should be charged with fraud against the people of Missouri by her lies and attempts to conceal who and what she really is....

[MrRelevant]

These guys probably thought it was hilarious when Omirosas and Cohens tapes were being pimped out by the MSM..lol.

[Pining_4_TX]

Thanks for the clarification. I wouldn’t want to see him get in legal trouble.