Fred Thompson is a punk

[Spider]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/ExWatergate_prober_Thompson_was_mole_for_0705.html
Ex-Watergate prober: Thompson 'was mole for the White House'
Will Menaker
Published: Thursday July 5, 2007

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According to an article in Wednesday's Boston Globe, GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, one-time Republican Senator for Tennessee, leaked information to the Nixon white house during the height of the Watergate investigation. In his capacity as the Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel, Thompson tipped off Nixon's attorney that the committee was aware of the president's secret tapping device, and would be making the information public.

In his Watergate memoir, "At That Point in Time," Thompson recalls that he acted with "no authority" in disclosing this information to Nixon. Former investigator for the Democratic majority on the Watergate committee, Scott Armstrong, claims this was just one of many leaks Thompson provided to the Nixon administration.

"Thompson was a mole for the White House," Armstrong claims. "Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was." When asked to comment on today's article, Thompson responded, "I'm glad all of this has finally caused someone to read my Watergate book, even though it's taken them over thirty years."

Earlier this year, Watergate icon Bob Woodward stated that Fred Thompson's role in the Watergate investigation was exaggerated and that when Thompson famously asked about the existence of a secret White House taping system, he already "knew the answer."

The role of Thompson as a "mole" for the Nixon White House undermines the cultivated image of a straight shooting and independent minded prosecutor who played a role in bringing down the president. Thompson's website even proclaims that he "gained national attention for leading the line of inquiry that revealed the audio-taping system in the White House Oval Office."

[Stormontheplains]

Did somebody elect Bob Woodward as the know it all for this country. Bob reminds me of this famous saying " If your still talking about what you did yestarday, then you have done nothing today"

Can anyone tell me who said those famous words?

And by the way spide, It's not nice to speek badly of the next president of these here united states.

[Spider]

Did somebody elect Bob Woodward as the know it all for this country. Bob reminds me of this famous saying " If your still talking about what you did yestarday, then you have done nothing today"

Can anyone tell me who said those famous words?

And by the way spide, It's not nice to speek badly of the next president of these here united states.

LOL when it comes to watergate Bob Woodard is the end all ..........

[Garcia Bronco]

I am sorry...but I don't even feel like Fred is a legit candidate at this point, and all the other choices suck. Every last one of them.

[Stormontheplains]

I'm with the conspiracy guys around here, Woodward set up nixon so he could write a book, and met Robert Redford.

By the way, are you watching what you eat, and exercising?

[Spider]

I'm with the conspiracy guys around here, Woodward set up nixon so he could write a book, and met Robert Redford.

By the way, are you watching what you eat, and exercising?

;D sure am Bro ..

[BroncoBuff]

"Thompson tipped off Nixon's attorney that the committee was aware of the president's secret tapping device, and would be making the information public."

I'm sure there's a GOOD REASON why Thompson would leak info to the Nixon White House :oyvey:




I am so sick of right-wingers justifying everything they do in the name either a) God, or b) Country. And Thompson is as bad as Giuliani in that respect ... with McCain at least he was a real hero, and as such, he was never over the top with blind cloaks of allegiance. I'm gonna miss McCain ...

And I'm not one for big sigs, but this giant stars and stripes motif I have (below) thrills me every time I click "Post." The stars and stripes are for everybody. I think that's why Hillary is tacking so far to the right ...

[bronclvr]

C'mon guys,

Here's your chance-I hear Hillary (and Bill) are going to be in Aspen tomorrow!

ROFL!

[sisterhellfyre]

I am sorry...but I don't even feel like Fred is a legit candidate at this point, and all the other choices suck. Every last one of them.

The only one in whom I have even a remote positive interest is Ron Paul. If he doesn't get far, I'll be taking a long look at the Green and Libertarian candidates next year.

[Spider]

C'mon guys,

Here's your chance-I hear Hillary (and Bill) are going to be in Aspen tomorrow!

ROFL!

Perhaps you should go .......... Probably learn something .......

[bronclvr]

Perhaps you should go .......... Probably learn something .......

I'm always open to new things :hitself:

[Spider]

I'm always open to new things :hitself:

I dont judge ;D . not that there is any thing wrong with that of course :wiggle:

[Garcia Bronco]

The only one in whom I have even a remote positive interest is Ron Paul. If he doesn't get far, I'll be taking a long look at the Green and Libertarian candidates next year.

I think I am going to end up doing the samething. My vote basically doesn't count anyway in the grand scheme.

[Garcia Bronco]

I'm sure there's a GOOD REASON why Thompson would leak info to the Nixon White House :oyvey:




I am so sick of right-wingers justifying everything they do in the name either a) God, or b) Country. And Thompson is as bad as Giuliani in that respect ... with McCain at least he was a real hero, and as such, he was never over the top with blind cloaks of allegiance. I'm gonna miss McCain ...

And I'm not one for big sigs, but this giant stars and stripes motif I have (below) thrills me every time I click "Post." The stars and stripes are for everybody. I think that's why Hillary is tacking so far to the right ...



I think we would have been better off had he won in 2000

[mhgaffney]

I just heard that Thompson now sits on a Repukelian committee, the purpose of which is to raise money for Scooter Libby -- to pay off his court-imposed fine.

Thompson can go back to Tennessee or Kentucky or Hollywood or wherever he came from.

[Bronco Bob]

I just heard that Thompson now sits on a Repukelian committee, the purpose of which is to raise money for Scooter Libby -- to pay off his court-imposed fine.

Thompson can go back to Tennessee or Kentucky or Hollywood or wherever he came from.

Libby conveniently came up with a check for $250,000 today.
And now there is a question about how Libby can serve
probation if he never served any jail time. So Libby has
in effect gotten a de facto pardon already.
Except now he can't be compelled to testify before congress
like he would have been if he had been granted a pardon.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

I just heard that Thompson now sits on a Repukelian committee, the purpose of which is to raise money for Scooter Libby -- to pay off his court-imposed fine.

Yep.

He voted "guilty" on the obstruction of justice article when the Senate voted on the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

And now he's raising money for a man who was convicted for obstructing justice in an investigation into a high crime committed by a member of the Bush administration.

Gotta love that right-wing double standard.

[BroncoBuff]

Bill Clinton lied at a deposition in a civil suit (Paula Jones).

Irving Libby lied to law enforcement - the FBI, investigating a crime. Then he walked into a federal courtroom, raised his hand and put his other hand on the Bible ... and:

COURT: "Do you swear to truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
LIBBY: "I do."



He then proceeded to lie through his teeth.

Just a teeny-weeny bit of difference between those lies.

.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Bill Clinton lied at a deposition in a civil suit (Paula Jones).

Irving Libby lied to law enforcement - the FBI, investigating a crime. Then he walked into a federal courtroom, raised his hand and put his other hand on the Bible ... and:

COURT: "Do you swear to truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
LIBBY: "I do."



He then proceeded to lie through his teeth.

Just a teeny-weeny bit of difference between those lies.

.

Ding ding ding! :thumbsup: :~ohyah!:

[TailgateNut]

Bill Clinton lied at a deposition in a civil suit (Paula Jones).

Irving Libby lied to law enforcement - the FBI, investigating a crime. Then he walked into a federal courtroom, raised his hand and put his other hand on the Bible ... and:

COURT: "Do you swear to truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?"
LIBBY: "I do."



He then proceeded to lie through his teeth.

Just a teeny-weeny bit of difference between those lies.

.



Regardless of reality, the rightards here will continue to compare a banana to coconut.