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Group Says It Wants to Nip “Swift Boater”-like Attacks On Obama.

Accountable America is a new pro-Obama, leftist group that has mailed letters to 10,000 major Republican and contributors to conservative causes letters threatening them with potential legal problems if they finance conservative groups.

The group is led by Tom Matzzie, former Washington director of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, and its research director is Judd Legum, who served that role in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Matzzie called the organization’s effort “going for the jugular.” He told The Times, “We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground.”

If a conservative group do run ads attacking Barack Obama, Matzzie says his group plans to run ads countering it exposing the donors behind the anti-Obama message.

The group hopes to quickly raise $2 million and says it is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the criminal conviction or fines of at least $10,000 for violations of campaign finance laws or other statutes by a conservative group, according to The New York Times.

The move points out how desperate leftist are and that they fear a “Swift Boat” like attack. In fact the enterprise may encourage just such fund raising to finance campaign attacks on him. This is ill-advised and tawdry.