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Fred
Thompson
- 
Mitt
Romney
- 
Money
- 
South
Carolina - Immigration
- 2008
Election - "Thompson
Accuses Romney Of Trying To "Buy South Carolina"."
... "[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Fred Thompson stepped
up his attacks against [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate]
Mitt Romney today in South Carolina on two fronts: his immigration stance
and his campaign financing." ... "“Governor Romney supported the immigration
bill that I opposed back before it became a controversial issue,” Thompson
said, referring to the failed immigration bill put forth earlier this year.
“The governor once again has changed his position.”" ... "Thompson told
a packed lunchtime crowd at the Beef O’Brady’s restaurant in Ft. Mill that
Romney was trying to buy his way to the nomination. "Governor, you can’t
buy South Carolina. You can’t even rent it.”" -From
John Bentley with Brian Montopoli -CBSNews
Fred
D Thompson
- 
Criminal
- 
Drug
- Money
- 
Jet
- 2008
Election - "Thompson
Adviser Has Criminal Past." ... "[2008 Election]
Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing
the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman
and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing." ... "Thompson
selected the businessman, Philip Martin, to raise seed money for his White
House bid. Martin is one of four campaign co-chairmen and the head of a
group called the "first day founders." Campaign aides jokingly began to
refer to Martin, who has been friends with Thompson since the early 1990s,
as the head of "Thompson's Airforce."" ... "Thompson's frequent flights
aboard Martin's twin-engine Cessna 560 Citation have saved him more than
$100,000, because until the law changed in September, campaign-finance
rules allowed presidential candidates to reimburse private jet owners for
just a fraction of the true cost of flights." ... "Martin entered a plea
of guilty to the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana in 1979; the court withheld
judgment pending completion of his probation. He was charged in 1983 with
violating his probation and with multiple counts of felony bookmaking,
cocaine trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded no contest to the cocaine-trafficking
and conspiracy charges, which stemmed from a plan to sell $30,000 worth
of the drug, and was continued on probation." (1, 2,
3)
-By Matthew Mosk with contributions by Alice Crites,
Jonathan Weisman, and Sarah Cohen -WashingtonPost
Mitt
Romney
- Fred
Thompson
- Religious
- 
Massachusetts
- 2008
Election - "Anti-Thompson
Site Connects to Romney Camp." ... "A top adviser
to former Massachusetts governor [2008 election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Mitt Romney appears to be behind today's launch of a new Web
site attacking GOP presidential rival [2008 election Republican Presidential
Candidate] Fred Thompson." ... "The site, www.phoneyfred.org,
paints an unflattering picture of Thompson, dubbing him: Fancy Fred, Five
O'clock Fred, Flip-Flop Fred, McCain Fred, Moron Fred, Playboy Fred, Pro-Choice
Fred, Son-of-a-Fred and Trial Lawyer Fred. [View
an image of the Web site]" ... "Shortly after a Washington Post reporter
made inquiries about the site to the Romney campaign, the site was taken
down." ... "Before it vanished, the front page of the website featured
a picture of a regal Thompson dressed in a frilly outfit more befitting
a Gilbert and Sullivan production than a presidential campaign. Under the
heading, "Playboy Fred," the site asks the question: "Once a Pro-Choice
Skirt Chaser, Now Standard Bearer of the Religious Right?"" -By
Michael D. Shear and Rob Pegoraro -WashingtonPost
Fred
Thompson - 
- Ad
- 
New
Hampshire - 
Tenn
- 2008
Election - "Thompson
joins debate for 30 secs.." ... "Former Sen. Fred
Thompson’s (R-Tenn.) decision to run his first ad during the broadcast
of Wednesday night’s presidential debate in New Hampshire instead of participating
in it could cost him dearly with the state’s voters. Thompson will appear
on air later in the evening, as a guest on NBC’s “The Tonight Show with
Jay Leno.”" ... "Thompson’s rivals, as well as state officials and analysts,
said the senator might be in hot water with primary voters, particularly
if they interpret the campaign’s decision as part of an overall strategy
that overlooks the first-in-the-nation primary state." -By
Sam Youngman -TheHill.com
Fred
Thompson
- Money
- 
Politics
- 2008
Election - "Thompson
faces election complaint." ... "A liberal blogger
has filed a federal complaint against former Sen. Fred Thompson, the actor
and unannounced Republican candidate for president, accusing him of violating
election laws as he ponders his entry into the race." ... "The blogger,
Lane Hudson, submitted his complaint to the Federal Election Commission
on Monday saying Thompson has raised far more money than he needs to explore
whether to run for president." ... "The law prohibits anyone who is "testing
the waters" from hoarding the money for use during his actual campaign."
... "According to a financial report filed late last month, Thompson had
raised nearly $3.5 million and had had spent $625,000." -By
Jim Kuhnhenn -AP
via -Yahoo
Fred
Thompson
- 
Government
- 
Family
- Abortion
- 
Health
- Counseling
- Censorship
- Politics
- 
History
- Tennessee
- 2008
Election - "[Fred]
Thompson lobbied for abortion-rights group, it says:
A spokesman for the GOP presidential hopeful says he did no such work.
An ex-colleague calls the denial 'bizarre.'." ... "[2008 election potential
Republican Presidential candidate] Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning
for president as an antiabortion Republican, accepted an assignment from
a family-planning group to lobby the first [Republican President] Bush
White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to
a 1991 document and several people familiar with the matter." ... "A spokesman
for the former Tennessee senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying
work. But the minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning
and Reproductive Health Assn. say that the group hired Thompson that year."
... "His task was to urge the administration of President George H. W.
Bush to withdraw or relax a rule that barred abortion counseling at clinics
that received federal money, according to the records and to people who
worked on the matter." ... "The abortion "gag rule" was then a major political
flashpoint. Lobbying against the rule would have placed Thompson at odds
with the antiabortion movement that he is now trying to rally behind his
expected declaration of a presidential bid." -By Michael
Finnegan -LAtimes
Fred
Thompson
- 
Lewis
Libby
- 
Dick
Cheney
- 
Surveillance
- 
Intelligence
- 
Law
- Politics
- History
- 
Book
- Tennessee
- "Not
all would put a heroic sheen on Thompson's Watergate role."
... "The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson
made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight -- asking
an aide to [Republican] President Nixon whether there was a White House
taping system -- he telephoned Nixon's lawyer." ... "Thompson tipped off
the White House that the committee knew about the taping system and would
be making the information public. In his all-but-forgotten Watergate memoir,
"At That Point in Time," Thompson said he acted with "no authority" in
divulging the committee's knowledge of the tapes, which provided the evidence
that led to Nixon's resignation. It was one of many Thompson leaks to the
Nixon team, according to a former investigator for Democrats on the committee,
Scott Armstrong , who remains upset at Thompson's actions." ... ""Thompson
was a mole for the White House," Armstrong said in an interview. "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."" ... "But the story of his role in the Nixon case helps
put in perspective Thompson's recent stance as one of the most outspoken
proponents of pardoning I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff
to [Republican] Vice President Dick Cheney. Just as Thompson once staunchly
defended Nixon, Thompson urged a pardon for Libby, who was convicted in
March of obstructing justice in the investigation into who leaked a CIA
operative's name." ... "On July 13, 1973, Armstrong, the Democratic staffer,
asked [Nixon aide Alexander] Butterfield a series of questions during a
private session that led up to the revelation. He then turned the questioning
over to a Republican staffer, Don Sanders, who asked Butterfield the question
that led to the mention of the taping system." ... "To the astonishment
of everyone in the room, Butterfield admitted the taping system existed."
... "When Thompson learned of Butterfield's admission, he leaked the revelation
to Nixon's counsel, J. Fred Buzhardt." ... "[Tennessee Republican Senator
Howard] Baker, meanwhile, insisted that Thompson be allowed to ask Butterfield
the question about the taping system in a public session on July 16, 1973,
three days after the committee had learned about the system." -By
Michael Kranish -Boston/Globe
Lewis
"Scooter" Libby
- Dick
Cheney
- Fred
Thompson
- Rudy
Giuliani
- Political
- Intelligence
- Law
- Tennessee
- 
New
York
- 2008
Election - "Bush
Commutes Libby's Prison Term in CIA Leak Case (Update5)."
... "[Republican] President George W. Bush spared Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby
from prison in the CIA leak case, saying his 2 1/2-year term was ``excessive.''"
... "Bush acted after a U.S. appellate court today refused to let Libby,
56, stay free during his appeal. Libby, former chief of staff to [Republican]
Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted of lying to investigators probing
the 2003 leak of Central Intelligence Agency official Valerie Plame's identity."
... "Republicans approved of Bush's decision." ... "``I am very happy for
Scooter Libby,'' said former Tennessee [Republican] Senator Fred Thompson,
a potential Republican presidential candidate who had urged a pardon."
... "Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani [2008 election Republican Presidential
candidate] said that Bush ``came to a reasonable decision and I believe
the decision was correct.''" ... "Melanie Sloan, a lawyer who represents
Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, in a civil suit against Libby and
Cheney over the leak, said Bush's administration ``believes leaking classified
information for political ends is justified and that the law is what applies
to other people.''" -By Edwin Chen
-Bloomberg
Fred
Thompson
- 
US
- 
Cuban
- Immigrant
- 
Terrorism
- 
Florida
- New
York
- Tennessee
- 2008
Election - "Clinton
attacks Thompson's Cuba remark." ... "Taking a swipe
at a potential Republican presidential rival, [2008 election Presidential
candidate and New York Senator] Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
on Saturday criticized [Republican] Fred Thompson for suggesting Cuban
immigrants pose a terrorist threat." ... ""I was appalled when one of the
people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked
about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists," Clinton told Hispanic elected
officials. "Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or
anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."" ... "The actor
and former Tennessee senator was criticizing an immigration bill in the
Senate, contending it would make the country more vulnerable to terrorism."
-AP via -USATODAY
2008
Election - Consumer
- Money
- Law
- 
Ariz
- Identity
Thieve - Ad
- "An
awkward ad by Fred Thompson: He promotes the firm
of a man once accused of deceiving consumers." ... "Possible [2008 election]
presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson is lending his voice to radio commercials
for a company that says it fights identity thieves and that was co-founded
by a man accused of taking money from consumer bank accounts without permission."
... "The one-minute commercials are airing across the country on behalf
of Tempe, Ariz.-based LifeLock Inc., which said nearly 200,000 customers
pay about $10 a month for services that include placing fraud alerts on
their credit files." ... "LifeLock was co-founded in 2005 by Robert J.
Maynard Jr., whom the Federal Trade Commission accused in 1996 of deceiving
consumers with advertisements that suggested his credit-repair company
could remove records of bankruptcies and delinquent payments." ... "The
FTC also alleged that Maynard and another executive at National Credit
Foundation Inc. collected checking-account data from its customers for
"verification" when the real purpose was to make unauthorized withdrawals
from those accounts." (1,
2)
-By Joseph Menn -LAtimes
2008
Election - US
Immigration - Legislation
- Arizona
- Massachusetts
- "McCain
says Romney flip-flops on immigration." ... "[2008
election Presidential candidate and Arizona Senator] Republican John McCain
accused presidential rival [Republican] Mitt Romney of flip-flopping on
immigration Monday and said with sarcasm: "Maybe his solution will be to
get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn.""
... "McCain also said he was disappointed in potential candidate [Republican]
Fred Thompson for opposing immigration legislation the Arizona senator
is co-sponsoring." ... "Referring to Romney's stance, McCain said: "Maybe
I should wait a couple of weeks and see if it changes because it's changed
in less than a year from his position before."" ... "Romney has faced criticism
for calling himself a lifelong hunter even though he joined the National
Rifle Association in August and officials in four states where he has lived
said he never took out a hunting license. Defending himself, he said in
April, "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter, small varmints, if
you will."" ... "Also, The Boston Globe reported late last year that several
illegal immigrants, including at least one from Guatemala, worked at the
lawn care company that worked on Romney's two-and-a-half acre property
in a Boston [Massachusetts] suburb for a decade. His aides have said that
Romney was not aware of the workers' status, and that the owner was in
the country legally." -By Liz Sidoti-AP
via -BostonGlobe
2008
Election - 
Iowa
- "Poll:
Many would like Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice to run."
... "[Former Democratic Presidential candidate] Al Gore, many Iowa Democrats
want you to join the presidential race." ... "[Republicans] Condoleezza
Rice, Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson, many Iowa Republicans would like
you to throw your hats in the ring as well." ... "A new Des Moines Register
poll suggests that Iowans likely to participate in the January caucuses
aren’t entirely satisfied with the list of declared candidates."
-DesMoinesRegister
