http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070707/ap_on_el_pr/thompson_watergate;_ylt=An6Pn7IUtVZp4VKJrurMbF9h24cAWASHINGTON - Fred Thompson gained an image as a tough-minded investigative counsel for the Senate Watergate committee. Yet President Nixon and his top aides viewed the fellow Republican as a willing, if not too bright, ally, according to White House tapes.
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"It was Thompson who tipped off the White House that the Senate committee knew about the tapes. They eventually cinched Nixon's downfall in the scandal resulting from the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington and the subsequent White House cover-up."
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"Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called "dumb as hell." The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would be outsmarted by the committee's Democratic counsel".
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Scott Armstrong, a Democratic investigator for the committee who was part of the Butterfield questioning, said he was outraged by Thompson's tip-off.
"When the prosecutor discovers the smoking the gun, he's going to be shocked to find that the deputy prosecutor called the defendant and said, 'You'd better get rid of that gun,'" Armstrong said in an interview.
:eyes: Yeah, just what this country needs. Another "party first" Rethuglican with no conscience. I'm hoping that as time goes on the light of truth will fall upon Thompson, and Giuliani as well for that matter. There's enough skeletons in these guys' closets to fill Arlington several times over.
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