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Originally Posted by spunkmaster
In July of 1973, Fred Thompson, then a Republican attorney for the Senate Watergate committee, (and now a Republican senator from Tennessee), called on a surprise witness, Alexander Butterfield. Butterfield was a former aide to White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman. The exchange:
Thompson: "Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?"
Butterfield: "I was aware of listening devices, yes sir.
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It is you who needs to do your homework on Thompson and Nixon. In a private session Butterfield admitted that the Oval Office was taped. The question was not posed by Thompson but by another Republican. After finding out that tapes existed, Thompson leaked the information to the Nixon legal team in advance. There was then a public hearing 3 days later in which they all knew the question would need to be asked again. Howard Baker who was a Senator at the time insisted that Thompson be the one to ask it.
Don't let the hype fool you. Thompson was just given the chance to ask the question after it was asked 3 days earlier in a private session. He was a mole for the White House and Nixon in which many people felt he should have been fired.
Now lets look at his lobbying career that raked in over $1 million dollars. He lobbied hard for the deregulation of the Savings and Loan industry in the 80's which led to the huge crisis. He lobbied for an insurance company overseas to help fight legislation that would make them liable for a shitload of people getting cancer from asbestos. And not to mention his new staff is stock full of huge lobbyists. The guy is a K-Street dream. Oh, and lets not forget about his PAC that happened to pay his son hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting a race he didn't even run in.
I know everyone running is a fucking crook and scumbag, but just pointing out that Thompson is one too.