Watchdog group accuses Clinton campaign of election law violations

But the Campaign Legal Center argues that Correct the Record is stretching FEC rules exempting Internet communications from federal election laws far beyond recognition. That exemption was intended to permit “individual citizens using the Internet to speak freely regarding candidates and elections,” its complaint argues, not to “offer campaigns a way to outsource their communications, opposition research, and press operations to a political committee and to pay for those activities” using unregulated funds.