Word: thompson
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...will hardly come as a surprise that White House officials reviewed all the tapes last week before sending them to the Justice Department and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee. The 103 White House coffees were the most creative--and controversial--fund-raising technique invented by either party for the 1996 campaign. There was no admission fee per se, but past donors and potential givers were treated to a special set of Washington briefings with top officials that culminated in an hourlong session with the President. The events normally took place in the cozy, first-floor Map Room...
...making sense of the Clinton videotapes will fall first to Fred Thompson, which is sort of an irony all its own. For it was Thompson, then a 30-year-old minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, whose staff helped unearth the existence of Richard Nixon's secret White House recording system. The Clinton videotapes may not be incriminating, and they were never designed to be secret. But they can't be dismissed, for in Nixon's case the tapes proved to be the most powerful witness...
...simply asked Thomann to see if the transfer from Vasquez to Carey was "possible," Sullivan said, and dropped the issue after that. What Senate investigators want to know is how far the grand swap extended, which is why Mark Thomann is scheduled to take an oath before Fred Thompson's Donorgate committee this week...
Janet Reno says she's mad. At the White House, for making her look incompetent over those belated videotapes. Undoubtedly at the Senate and House, where Fred Thompson and Dan Burton devote a little of their committee hearings each day to howlings for her head...
Former Clinton aide Harold Ickes came out swinging again Wednesday in Fred Thompson's campaign finance hearing (TIME Daily...