THOMPSON TO FORM EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
29 May 2007From USA Today:
Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson hasn’t formally announced he’ll run for the Republican presidential nomination — but today he did begin raising money for a prospective bid, USA TODAY Washington bureau chief Susan Page writes. She continues:
In a conference call with about 100 people — many of whom have urged him to jump in the race — Thompson asked for their help in raising funds for a testing-the-waters committee, which is likely to be formed next week. That money could be used for a campaign when and if he’s ready to run.
“I’m not saying anything against any of the candidates, but I think he can fill the vacuum that has not been filled yet on the Republican side,” Mack Mattingly, a former U.S. senator from Georgia who was on the call, says of Thompson. He predicts the actor and former senator “will be just like a magnet” who can attract conservative Democrats and Republicans.
Carl Ricker, a Republican fundraiser and real estate developer from Asheville, N.C., who was also in on the call, says he has delayed giving to other presidential candidates. “I guess there are people out there I could live with,” he says, “but there’s not anyone who made me smile and feel warm inside like Fred does.”
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on June 1st, 2007 at 4:49 pm
You may want to tell Mr. Thompson that if he runs, he’ll have to answer some pretty insightful questions regarding the Las Vegas / CIA connection to Watergate. These are questions that haven’t come up before publicly, and are probably questions that he will not want to answer. It seems that his book “At That Point in Time” left out many of the dirty little secrets that can now be uncovered at the National Archives.
We can start with Mark Felt’s working relationship with Robert Maheu (Thompson will know of Maheu.) back in the WWII US counterintelligence effort against Germany. Small world, isn’t it. Back in a 1970s’ classified executive session of Congress, Mr. Thompson’s former law partner (Leibengood-SP?)asked Maheu if he knew Mark Felt (Testimony is now declassified). It might be interesting to ask Carl Woodward about this also.
We can discuss G. Gordon Liddy’s FBI mentor (his uncle Ray) and Ray’s 1960’s role as a senior Nevada State Gaming official. (Liddy’s uncle created the famous “Black Book” supposedly used to bar notorious mobsters from Nevada casinos.)
There are many lines of new inquiry, in addition to those already brought up at the time of the Watergate hearings. This new information might help put the earlier questions raised by Senator Howard Baker into proper context. (For example: Hunt and Liddy’s trip to Las Vegas to check out Hank Greenspun.)
Is Senator Thompson ready for this? I know that I am ready for the real truth to finally come out. The publicly known facts about Watergate are bad, but the real truth is even worse.
The legacy lives on today, with agencies raising massive funds in Las Vegas, completly bypassing Congressional appropriations. Because these agencies can raise their own funds, they completely bypass Congressional oversight and the checks and balances system built into our Constitution. These agencies appear to answer to no one.
I just thought I would give you guys at the Thompson campaign a “heads up.”