a campaign manager told cnn the meeting was in a private, closed, locked conference room. among a half-dozen long-time mcconnell aides like a family meeting. the campaign insists this was no leak. more like a watergate-style break-in. >> quite nixonian move. >> reporter: mcconnell blamed progress kentucky which is already smeared the senator's wife. >> the opinion of your campaign staff in kentucky that your office there was bugged and was it appropriate for members of your staff to talk about ashley judd's bouts with depression as a potential campaign issue? >> well, as you know, last month my wife's ethnicity was attacked by a left-wing group in kentucky and then apparently they also bugged my headquarters. >> reporter: outraged that mcconnell staff would target the past struggles, a pokes person said this is yet another example of the politics of personal destruction that embody mitch mcconnell and are pervasive in washington, d.c. >> i can never anticipate what is going to push me over the edge. >> reporter: the campaign once