Under its anonymous “Capital Confidential” byline, BigGovernment has a report of a “conference call/meeting. . . of former Clintonistas and senior Democrat political operatives to coordinate a push-back to the burgeoning tea party movement.”

Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the tea party movement and engage in deep opposition research on them. If possible, they will identify one or two they can perhaps ‘turn’, either with money or threats, to create a mole in the movement. The others will be subjected to a full-on smear campaign. (Has MSNBC already been notified?)

This sounds pretty conspiratorial, even by Clintonian standards, and would of course be quite disturbing if true.

Still, it is not the first evidence that well-funded and -connected sources on the left are mounting a clandestine campaign against the tea-party movement. Last week, we noted a Fox News investigation of an elaborate anti-tea-party astroturfing effort, comprised of a number of what seemed to be grassroots organizations supported by cash infusions from big unions and Democratic lawyers.