Thompson, F Sen

---easy to think of him as avuncular guy, kind of too lazy to actually run for prez when he was frontrunner, perhaps based on his Law and Order TV role, but ran watergate investitgation?<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Asking some of those questions as chairman of the Senate committee that soon will start hearings on the various fund-raising controversies is Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), who was the GOP counsel on the Senate Select Watergate Committee. A generation ago, it was Thompson who asked former Nixon aide Alexander P. Butterfield the fateful question: "Are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?"<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The answer, of course, was, "Yes," and it was those tapes that ultimately proved Nixon's undoing.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">While the scandals themselves are quite different, it was Watergate that prompted the formation of some of the existing campaign finance rules that Democratic National Committee fund-raisers are now accused of skirting. And improper campaign contributions were one of Watergate's many facets. In fact, illegal corporate donations to the campaign coffers of Nixon and others resulted in charges against 18 corporations and 24 individuals.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Thompson downplays comparisons between his current investigation and the one he honed his skills on years ago. In particular, he says, he dislikes the notion that in order to be successful in many people's eyes, a congressional investigation these days has to topple a presidency.<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Yet, in his first major Senate floor speech on his plans for the current probe, Thompson drew guffaws when he mistakenly referred to President Clinton as "President Nixon."<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">On a more substantive note, Thompson tapped his right-hand man during Watergate, attorney Mike Madigan, as chief counsel of the fund-raising inquiry. Madigan picked up the nickname "Mad Dog" during the Watergate probe because of his particularly aggressive questioning. The name has stuck all these years.http://articles.latimes.com/1997-05-20/news/mn-60652_1_watergate-prosecutor<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Baskerville, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.75px;">Mike's money The strange case of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Baskerville, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.75px;">Mike Madigan has taken yet another intriguing turn with the revelation that he purchased yet another downtown redevelopment-area condo last summer. The saga began a few weeks ago when it came to light that Madigan, the city's so-called Ballpark Czar, was departing city hall, allegedly because he had purchased a condo in the Park Loft project next to the new baseball stadium. But county property records show that the condo was actually purchased by his wife Laurie, who paid $731,000 in a transaction that closed on September 25. The same day, according to the records, Madigan executed a deed that gave Laurie sole ownership of the unit. A month before, on August 29, records show that Madigan closed escrow on a new condo as his "sole and separate property" at the Porto Siena project in Little Italy. The deed shows that the sale date was February 25, 2002, and the price of the unit was $335,000. Also on August 29, documents show, Laurie deeded her interest in a unit on Kettner Boulevard, the couple's third downtown condo, to Madigan as his "sole and separate property." Laurie Madigan is a registered lobbyist who has represented some of the city's biggest special interests, including landowner and construction-materials giant H.G. Fenton, Inc. She is listed as a "senior partner" on the website of her company, MNA Consulting, along with her fellow senior partner <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Georgia, Baskerville, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.75px;">David Nielsen. According to Nielsen's lobbying disclosure statement on file at city hall, he just happens to represent the Padres, along with a long roster of regional heavy hitters including Sea World, Pardee Construction (Mike Madigan's old employer), the Roman Catholic Diocese, and the San Diego Zoo.death panel lie mccaughy --> fred t --> bachmann --> palin
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bbb: coalition for child fut w/ CU helped newt (w/ hit ads?) : demo child molester, bill yellowtail convicted felon and wife beater, pushpoll senate kansas jewess; 29 vulnerable demos targetted, 12 lost, some by less than 200 votes, incl 2 above 90; dir says forced to sign over 700K blank checks; triad; CU also laundered $, called a coincidence when called on it 91; fred thompson started to go after 3; CU foster friess and triad koch; got gig after red october; gop leaders took his subpoena power 93 Trent lott; no witnesses

===A subsequent <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-105srpt167/pdf/CRPT-105srpt167-pt5.pdf" target="blank">investigation</a> <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2004/07/15/5967/kochs-low-profile-belies-political-power" target="blank">found</a> that more than half of the Triad money came from an organization funded by David and Charles Koch, and that the money was spent disproportionately in areas where Koch Industries owned refineries and pipelines. The investigation also <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2004/07/15/5967/kochs-low-profile-belies-political-power" target="_blank">found</a> that Koch Industries provided direct corporate money for the ads, an apparent violation of campaign finance law at the time.

At the time of the Senate investigation, Koch Industries had been building up its lobbying muscle to <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/09/21/119973/koch-mike-pompeo/" target="_blank">combat charges</a> relating to over 300 oil spills caused by the corporation in the mid nineties.

Just as The Wall Street Journal reported on many Triad-related documents, Koch received help from its allies in DC. In October of 1997, Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN)—then, the chair of the Senate Government Affairs Committee—moved to cancel hearings into the investigation.

Today, the dynamics are different, but the core issue is the same. A Koch-group was caught violating the law, and there’s a chance to uncover the truth about one of the biggest secret money efforts in American history. It’s likely that Koch and these billionaires will do anything it takes to prevent this current scandal from growing.

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Fred Dalton Thompson officially announced that he is seeking the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.presidential_election,2008" title="U.S. presidential election, 2008">2008 presidential nomination</a> during taping of the September 5, 2007, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-0">[1]</a>

Thompson was a Republican member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate">U.S. Senate</a> from 1994-2003, serving the state of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Category:Members_of_the_U.S.Congress_from_Tennessee" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Tennessee">Tennessee</a>. Before and after his time in the U.S. Senate, Thompson worked as an actor, most notably as the District Attorney on NBC's Law and Order. On May 30, 2007, he announced that he would form an exploratory committee to consider a run in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.presidential_election,2008" title="U.S. presidential election, 2008">2008 presidential election</a>.

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<h2>Contents</h2>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Records_and_Controversies">1 Records and Controversies</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Iraq_War_Voting">1.1 Iraq War Voting</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Iraq_had_WMDs_before_invasion">1.2 Iraq had WMDs before invasion</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Thompson_blames_Hillary_Clinton_for_his_.22suitcase_bomb.22_remark">1.3 Thompson blames Hillary Clinton for his "suitcase bomb" remark</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#The_.22now-fabled_rented_red_Chevy_pickup.22_myth">1.4 The "now-fabled rented red Chevy pickup" myth</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#The_.22not-Bush-Bush_candidate.22">1.5 The "not-Bush-Bush candidate"</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Thompson_linked_to_advice_for_Libyan_terrorists">1.6 Thompson linked to advice for Libyan terrorists</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Works_as_lobbyist">1.7 Works as lobbyist</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Family_planning_lobbyist">1.8 Family planning lobbyist</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Watergate_and_Richard_M._Nixon">1.9 Watergate and Richard M. Nixon</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Citizens_United_.2F_Citizens_United_Foundation">1.10 Citizens United / Citizens United Foundation</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Triad_Management_Services.2C_Inc.">1.11 Triad Management Services, Inc.</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#2008_presidential_race">2 2008 presidential race</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#From_the_campaign_trail">2.1 From the campaign trail</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Campaign_team">2.2 Campaign team</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Campaign_finance">2.3 Campaign finance</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Endorsements">2.4 Endorsements</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#By_members_of_Congress">2.4.1 By members of Congress</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Resources">3 Resources</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Related_SourceWatch_articles">3.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#References">3.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Websites">3.3 Websites</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#Articles_by_Fred_Thompson">3.4 Articles by Fred Thompson</a></li>

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<h2>Records and Controversies</h2>

<h3>Iraq War Voting</h3>

Thompson voted for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq" class="mw-redirect">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq</a> in Oct. 2002.

<div style=" margin: 0.5em 0.75em 0.5em 0.75em; border-collapse: collapse; background: #dce8f8; border: 1px solid #5c79b5; padding: .25em .25em 0.25em .25em;">For more information see the chart of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Senate_votes_on_the_Iraq_War" title="U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War">U.S. Senate votes on the Iraq War</a>.</div>

<h3>Iraq had <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/WMD" title="WMD" class="mw-redirect">WMDs</a> before <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Invasion_of_Iraq" title="Invasion of Iraq" class="mw-redirect">invasion</a></h3>

Speaking October 1, 2007, in Iowa, Thompson "declared that Iraq did indeed have WMDs prior to the U.S. invasion. The Des Moines Register reports:

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<dd>"[Thompson] was certain former Iraqi leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a> had <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="Weapons of mass destruction">weapons of mass destruction</a> prior to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq</a>, a point of contention in the 4.5 years since the war began.</dd>

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<dd>"'We can’t forget the fact that although at a particular point in time we never found any WMD down there, he clearly had had WMD. He clearly had had the beginnings of a nuclear program,' the former Tennessee senator told an audience of about 60 at a Newton cafe."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-1">[2]</a></dd>

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<h3>Thompson blames <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" class="mw-redirect">Hillary Clinton</a> for his "suitcase bomb" remark</h3>

"Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson blamed Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on [September 14, 2007,] for the publicity surrounding his remark suggesting Cuban immigrants are bringing suitcase bombs to the United States," the Associated Press reported.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-AP-2">[3]</a>

"When asked by Florida's WTVJ about the perception in the Cuban-American community about his comments, Thompson replied, 'I think that was a Hillary Clinton news release that she put out or a statement that she made trying to capitalize on something when she knew better.'

"During a trip to South Carolina in June, Thompson was talking about <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration">illegal immigration</a> from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a> and elsewhere and said, 'I don't imagine they're coming here to bring greetings from Castro. We're living in the era of the suitcase bomb.'"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-AP-2">[3]</a>

<h3>The "now-fabled rented red Chevy pickup" myth</h3>

"Fred Thompson could have traveled Tennessee in an Edsel and still beaten Jim Cooper for that 1994 Senate seat," Aaron Gould Sheinin of TheState.com wrote September 18, 2007.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-AGS-3">[4]</a>

"Take it from the first reporter to ride with Thompson in the now-fabled rented red Chevy pickup," Sheinin wrote,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-AGS-3">[4]</a> "it has become part of the standard bio that the pickup truck turned around a campaign that was 20 points behind that of Cooper, a 12-year Democratic congressman. Good script for a movie, but it’s not reality.

"By the time Thompson hit the road, it was clear that Cooper was in trouble, despite his image as a brainy moderate," Sheinin wrote.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-AGS-3">[4]</a>

<h3>The "not-Bush-Bush candidate"</h3>

"The importance of being Fred Thompson, so the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> hopes, is that he can be Bush without being Bush. And, the Republican prayer goes - a not-Bush-Bush should be able to revive the long-lost-Bush 'post-<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/9/11" title="9/11" class="mw-redirect">9/11</a> world' magic and win the election come November, 2008. ...

"Thompson has acknowledged the importance of being Fred Thompson and expressed his wholehearted willingness to be the not-Bush-Bush candidate by inviting and accepting the Bush clan's help on his campaign and fundraising, by hiring all the old Bush and Cheney aides to run his campaign, by wooing all the old Bush-Cheney backers, and by carrying on Bush's talking points without allowing so much as a smidge of daylight between his stance and the presidents'," A. Alexander wrote June 7, 2007, in The Progressive Daily.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-4">[5]</a>

<h3>Thompson linked to advice for Libyan terrorists</h3>

"A little over three years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland," Jo Becker wrote September 9, 2007, in the New York Times, Thompson "provided advice" in February 1992 to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Culver&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Culver (page does not exist)">John Culver</a>, a "partner at the Washington firm of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox_PLLC" title="Arent Fox PLLC">Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn</a>", "about one of his law firm’s new clients: The man representing the two Libyan intelligence officials charged in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terrorist" title="Terrorist">terrorist</a> bombing" ... "[A]ccording to a memorandum from that era written by his secretary, [Thompson] held 'discussions with Culver re: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>' that same month."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-Becker-5">[6]</a>

"At the time, Libya was facing international outrage for refusing to comply with a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> demand that the two suspects be extradited to the West for trial in the 1988 bombing, which killed 270 people. Revelations that American firms were representing Libyan interests provoked a furor among the Pan Am victims’ families. Some law firms refused to represent the country or the suspects, while others withdrew.

"The involvement of Mr. Thompson, who worked part-time for Arent Fox as a lawyer and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist">lobbyist</a> from 1991 until shortly before his election to the Senate in 1994, never became public. But Arent Fox’s chairman, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Marc_L._Fleischaker" title="Marc L. Fleischaker">Marc L. Fleischaker</a>, confirmed that Mr. Thompson, who is now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, briefly provided Mr. Culver with advice about the suspects’ case, billing the firm for 3.3 hours of his time," Becker wrote.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-Becker-5">[6]</a>

<h3>Works as lobbyist</h3>

From 1975 to 1992, Thompson worked as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. He represented such clients as Westinghouse Electric, General Electric, and the Tennessee Savings and Loan League.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-6">[7]</a>

By 1982, Thompson was lobbying the U.S. Congress for passage of the Savings and Loan deregulation legislation. The federal deregulation legislation allowed for additional government support of ailing S&Ls; gave U.S. thrifts the freedom to invest in potentially more profitable, but riskier, ventures; and eliminated interest-rate ceilings on new accounts. Thompson's recommendations were incorporated into the Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-7">[8]</a>

In 1991, he began work with the Washington, D.C. firm of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arent_Fox_PLLC" title="Arent Fox PLLC">Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, & Kahn</a>, representing overseas business entities as a registered foreign agent.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-8">[9]</a>

Over the course of his lobbying career, Thompson earned about $507,000 representing clients such as Canadian-owned cable companies and deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, according to government documents and media accounts from his first run for the Senate in 1994.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-9">[10]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Corallo" title="Mark Corallo">Mark Corallo</a>, a spokesman for Thompson, defended the work, stating "There's nothing wrong with lobbying. It's an honorable profession."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-10">[11]</a> John Heilemann of New York Magazine was more critical, stating "Critics point out that Thompson's aw-shucks, shit-kicker populism is more than a little bit phony...he spent eighteen years as a registered Washington lobbyist, doing the bidding of such high-powered clients as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Westinghouse" title="Westinghouse" class="mw-redirect">Westinghouse</a>, pushing for the passage of the deregulatory legislation that led to the savings-and-loan crisis of the eighties." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-11">[12]</a>

In some cases, Thompson lobbied for causes that he would later oppose as a senator. For instance, while he led a Senate effort against "corporate welfare," as a lobbyist he represented Westinghouse in a failed bid to win billions in federal subsidies for a nuclear reactor project in Tennessee.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-12">[13]</a>

In 2004, he again registered as a lobbyist, representing Equitas, a company created to manage the asbestos liability for Lloyd's of London. Equitas hired numerous lobbyists to protect itself from a bill which would set up a federal trust fund, paid for by insurers, asbestos-makers and others, to compensate asbestos victims. The bill failed to pass, and Thompson was paid $760,000 from 2004 to 2006 for his services, according to Senate records.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-13">[14]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-14">[15]</a>

<h3>Family planning lobbyist</h3>

"Evidence that Thompson worked for a family-planning group in 1991 as part of his little-known but extensive portfolio as a part-time lobbyist underscores how much the public has yet to learn about the former senator, who is best known for acting in movies and on TV, especially his role as a district attorney on the popular show 'Law & Order'," Janet Hook wrote July 8, 2007, in the Los Angeles Times.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-15">[16]</a>

"In 1991, according to several people then affiliated with the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn., he accepted an assignment from the association to lobby the White House to withdraw or relax a 'gag rule' that barred abortion counseling at clinics that received federal money," Hook wrote.

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<li>Michael Finnegan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thompson7jul07,0,4461428,full.story?coll=la-home-center">"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',"</a> Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2007.</li>

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<h3><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Watergate" title="Watergate">Watergate</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_M.Nixon" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard M. Nixon</a></h3>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/19/woodward-questions-thompson-role-in-watergate/">"Woodward questions Thompson role in Watergate,"</a> Think Progress, June 18, 2007.</li>

<li>Nick Juliano, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Woodward_says_Thompson_get_too_much_0618.html">"Woodward says Thompson gets too much credit for role in Watergate investigation,"</a> The Raw Story, June 18, 2007.</li>

<li>Ryan Sager, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latestpolitics.com/blog/2007/06/thompson-woodward-and-watergate.html">"Thompson, Woodward, and Watergate,"</a> New York Sun, June 19, 2007.</li>

<li>SueDoe_CyAnts, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.shadow-media.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1862&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">"Fred Thompson was a Nixon waterboy,"</a> ShadowMedia, July 7, 2007.</li>

</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United">Citizens United</a> / <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United_Foundation" title="Citizens United Foundation">Citizens United Foundation</a></h3>

Thompson has been featured in a number of political films and advertisements for Citizens United and its Foundation.

In March 2003, Citizens United "launched a national ad campaign supporting Bush's hard-charging approach to Baghdad," with Thompson as the "face" for the anti-war "counter movement." In an "ad he wrote himself", Thompson said "Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to protect our country, ... What should we do with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Yellowcake_forgery" title="Yellowcake forgery">inevitable prospect of nuclear weapons</a> in the hands of a murderous and aggressive enemy? Can we afford to appease <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam</a>? ... And for those who ask what has Saddam done to us, I ask what had the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/9/11" title="9/11" class="mw-redirect">9/11</a> hijackers done to us before 9/11?"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-16">[17]</a>

In April 2003, Thompson made pro-war political advertisements for the Citizens United Foundation. See video clips "Courage"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-17">[18]</a> and "Soldier"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-18">[19]</a> posted on YouTube.

In September 2004, Thompson, "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Krauthammer" title="Charles Krauthammer">Charles Krauthammer</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Barnes" title="Fred Barnes">Fred Barnes</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Medved&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Medved (page does not exist)">Michael Medved</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_Barone" title="Michael Barone">Michael Barone</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Sammon" title="Bill Sammon">Bill Sammon</a> among other Washington veterans" were featured in Citizens United's film Celsius 41.11 - the Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die, allegedly to "[counter] the lies and deceptions of Fahrenheit 9/11 and [provide] a full deconstruction of Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect">John Kerry</a>, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democrat</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.presidential_election,2004" title="U.S. presidential election, 2004">presidential</a> nominee."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-19">[20]</a>

A 2004 Citizens United ad (in two parts) by Thompson was added to YouTube in November 2006 by poster BattleCryForFreedom.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-20">[21]</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-21">[22]</a>

<h3><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Triad_Management_Services,_Inc." title="Triad Management Services, Inc.">Triad Management Services, Inc.</a></h3>

In summary, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media_Matters_for_America" title="Media Matters for America">Media Matters for America</a> reported June 19, 2007, that a "Newsweek article cited former Sen. Fred Thompson's leadership of a 1997 investigation into Republican campaign finance irregularities as evidence that he 'was willing to buck his party.' However, Thompson shut down the investigation before Democrats could introduce evidence linking <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> lawmakers to [Triad Management Services, Inc.] a fundraising group they claimed had skirted campaign finance laws."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-22">[23]</a>

In September 1996, Triad was involved in moving campaign contributions between Republican contributor <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Cloeren" title="Peter Cloeren">Peter Cloeren</a> of Orange, Texas, Texas House candidate Brian Babin, and Citizens United.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-23">[24]</a>

<h2>2008 presidential race</h2>

On March 11, 2007, Thompson appeared on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> Sunday to discuss the possibility of a 2008 candidacy for president. The announcement spurred several grassroots draft movements, including a well-organized draft campaign started by a former Thompson political aide in Knoxville, Tennessee.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-24">[25]</a>

During the interview, Thompson articulated several of his current political views. He reiterated his opposition to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abortion" title="Abortion" class="mw-redirect">abortion</a> rights, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gun_control" title="Gun control">gun control</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gay_marriage" title="Gay marriage" class="mw-redirect">gay marriage</a>; and support for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" class="mw-redirect">Iraq War</a> (with no withdrawal timeline), President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">Bush</a>’s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.tax_cuts" title="U.S. tax cuts">tax cuts</a>, and a presidential pardon for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Trial_of_Scooter_Libby" title="Trial of Scooter Libby">Scooter Libby</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-25">[26]</a>

Thompson has also been skeptical of the role humans have played in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_warming" title="Global warming">global warming</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-26">[27]</a>

On May 30, 2007, The Politico reported that Thompson planned to enter the presidential race over the Independence Day weekend.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-27">[28]</a>

<h3>From the campaign trail</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_D._Novak" title="Robert D. Novak" class="mw-redirect">Robert D. Novak</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/01/AR2007080102052.html?nav=hcmodule">"Thompson's Top Adviser,"</a> Washington Post, August 2, 2007.</li>

</ul>

<h3>Campaign team</h3>

At the outset of his campaign, Thompson's spokesperson was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Corallo" title="Mark Corallo">Mark Corallo</a>, who formerly handled press operations for White House aide <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Karl Rove</a> during the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Trial_of_Scooter_Libby" title="Trial of Scooter Libby">Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial</a>. The man who organized a Thompson conference call the week his intentions were made public, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ken_Rietz&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ken Rietz (page does not exist)">Ken Rietz</a>, at the time worked as an executive at the PR firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Burson-Marsteller" title="Burson-Marsteller">Burson-Marsteller</a> (run by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" class="mw-redirect">Hillary Clinton</a>'s chief strategist, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Penn" title="Mark Penn">Mark Penn</a>). Rietz had once spied on former Maine Sen. Ed Muskie's (D) presidential campaign on behalf of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" class="mw-redirect">Richard Nixon</a> in 1972 as part of "Operation Sedan Chair." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-28">[29]</a>

Other advisers to the campaign include former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/FEC" title="FEC" class="mw-redirect">FEC</a> chairman <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_E._Toner" title="Michael E. Toner">Michael E. Toner</a> (general counsel), former <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Justice_Department" title="Justice Department" class="mw-redirect">Justice Department</a> spokesman Mark Corallo, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tom_Collamore" title="Tom Collamore" class="mw-redirect">Tom Collamore</a>, a former executive at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Altria" title="Altria" class="mw-redirect">Altria</a>, the corporate parent of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Philip_Morris" title="Philip Morris" class="mw-redirect">Philip Morris</a> USA. Collamore was tapped to lead the campaign, according to several sources.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-29">[30]</a>

According to Liz Sardoti of the Ashland City Times, Thompson surrounded himself with advisers who served under former U.S. presidents <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George H.W. Bush</a> in the weeks surrounding his announcement that he was planning for a run.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-30">[31]</a> Among those also expected to play a role, she wrote, were <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mary_Matalin" title="Mary Matalin">Mary Matalin</a>, a former adviser in the current <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Griffin" title="Tim Griffin">Tim Griffin</a>, an ex-aide at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> who as a U.S. attorney in Arkansas was involved in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_U.S.attorney_firings_controversy" title="Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy">Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy</a>.

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_P.Bush" title="George P. Bush">George P. Bush</a>, a nephew of President Bush, has contributed to Thompson's "prospective presidential campaign ... and signed an e-mail asking friends and associates to do the same, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Politico" title="The Politico">The Politico</a> has learned," Mike Allen reported June 4, 2007.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-31">[32]</a> Sources say Matalin will be an unpaid adviser and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lawrence_B.Lindsey" title="Lawrence B. Lindsey" class="mw-redirect">Lawrence B. Lindsey</a>, President Bush's "first economic policy adviser and an architect of his tax cuts", "economic adviser to Bush's first presidential campaign", and a former member of the Board of Governors of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal_Reserve_System" title="Federal Reserve System">Federal Reserve System</a>, will head economic policy and "also have a hand in the campaign's broader policy formulation." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_M.McIntosh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David M. McIntosh (page does not exist)">David M. McIntosh</a>, "a lawyer and former congressman from Indiana who was an official in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George H.W. Bush</a> administrations," will head domestic policy. And <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Turk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Turk (page does not exist)">Michael Turk</a>, "e-campaign director for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>'s reelection campaign, will take a leave of absence from his current job with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Cable%26_Telecommunications_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Cable & Telecommunications Association (page does not exist)">National Cable & Telecommunications Association</a> to assist in getting the Thompson website off the ground. He may continue in a webmaster capacity for the campaign."

New additions in June 2007 included members of Thompson's foreign policy team: "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Esper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Esper (page does not exist)">Mark Esper</a>, national security adviser to former Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Frist" title="Bill Frist">Bill Frist</a>; <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joel_Shin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joel Shin (page does not exist)">Joel Shin</a>, a top policy staffer on Bush-Cheney 2000; and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Elizabeth_Cheney" title="Elizabeth Cheney">Elizabeth Cheney</a>, a former top official in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/State_Department" title="State Department" class="mw-redirect">State Department</a>'s Near East and South Asia department. ... Esper, Shin, and Cheney are well known and well respected in the Washington foreign policy community and generally regarded as hawkish in their views on national security. They will continue to give Thompson's foreign policy advice as the effort becomes a formal campaign."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-32">[33]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-33">[34]</a>

<dl>

<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_U.S._attorney_firings_controversy" title="Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy">Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy</a></dd>

</dl>

<h3><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Thompson/campaign_finance" title="Fred Thompson/campaign finance">Campaign finance</a></h3>

<h3>Endorsements</h3>

<h4>By members of Congress</h4>

<dl>

<dd>Main article: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.presidential_election,2008/Congressional_endorsements" title="U.S. presidential election, 2008/Congressional endorsements">U.S. presidential election, 2008/Congressional endorsements</a></dd>

</dl>

<h2>Resources</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United" title="Citizens United">Citizens United</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tim_Griffin" title="Tim Griffin">Tim Griffin</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tommy_Hopper" title="Tommy Hopper">Tommy Hopper</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S.presidential_election,2008" title="U.S. presidential election, 2008">U.S. presidential election, 2008</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-0">↑</a> Mike Allen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5665.html">"Fred Thompson finally announces run,"</a> The Politico, September 6, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/01/fred-thompson-iraq-had-wmds-prior-to-invasion/">"Fred Thompson: Iraq had WMDs prior to invasion,"</a> Think Progress, October 1, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-AP-2">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-AP_2-0">3.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-AP_2-1">3.1</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/thompson_cuba/2007/09/14/32682.html">"Thompson: Clinton Made Issue of Remark,"</a> Associated Press (<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NewsMax" title="NewsMax" class="mw-redirect">NewsMax</a>), September 14, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-AGS-3">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-AGS_3-0">4.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-AGS_3-1">4.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-AGS_3-2">4.2</a> Aaron Gould Sheinin <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5867.html">"What's the truck got to do with it?"</a> TheState.com (The Politico), September 18, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-4">↑</a> A. Alexander, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?id=1568">"The Importance of Being Fred Thompson,"</a> The Progressive Daily, June 7, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Becker-5">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-Becker_5-0">6.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-Becker_5-1">6.1</a> Jo Becker, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/us/politics/09thompson.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">"Thompson Linked to Work for Libyans,"</a> New York Times, September 9, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-6">↑</a> Michelle Cottle, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/archives/9612.cottle.html">"Another Beltway Bubba?,"</a> Washington Monthly, December 1996.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-7">↑</a> Michelle Cottle, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/archives/9612.cottle.html">"Another Beltway Bubba?,"</a> Washington Monthly, December 1996.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-8">↑</a> Michelle Cottle, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/archives/9612.cottle.html">"Another Beltway Bubba?,"</a> Washington Monthly, December 1996.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-9">↑</a> Ken Dilanian, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070607/a_thompson07.art.htm">"Past as lobbyist may play into future as candidate,"</a> USA Today, June 7, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-10">↑</a> Kenneth P. Vogel, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3404.html">"'Law & Order' And Lobbying,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Politico" title="The Politico">The Politico</a>, April 2, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-11">↑</a> John Heilemann <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/30930/">"The Shadow Candidates,"</a> New York Magazine, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-12">↑</a> Ken Dilanian, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070607/a_thompson07.art.htm">"Past as lobbyist may play into future as candidate,"</a> USA Today, June 7, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-13">↑</a> Ken Dilanian, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070607/a_thompson07.art.htm">"Past as lobbyist may play into future as candidate,"</a> USA Today, June 7, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-14"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-14">↑</a> "Fred Thompson – The Lobbyist," Political Money Line, May 31, 2007. (Need citation.) See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/opr_gifviewer.exe?/2004/01/000/600/000600716%7C2">registration form</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-15">↑</a> Janet Hook, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thompson8jul08,1,1816878.story">"Thompson star dims on abortion issue. Conservatives are anxious after a family-planning group claims that he once lobbied on its behalf against the so-called gag rule,"</a> Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-16">↑</a> Liza Porteus, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79954,00.html">"'Pro-War' Movement Springs Into Action,"</a> Fox News, March 2, 2003. Note: Thompson is promoting the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a>'s position in his ad. See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_alleged_linkage_of_Saddam_Hussein_with_Osama_bin_Laden,_al_Qaeda_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="The alleged linkage of Saddam Hussein with Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction">The alleged linkage of Saddam Hussein with Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-17">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUOgDRSwNY&NR=1">"Fred Thompson, Courage,"</a> Citizens United Foundation, April 2003; posted on YouTube.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-18">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9HHJjlEyo&NR=1">"Fred Thompson, Soldier,"</a> Citizens United Foundation, April 2003; posted on YouTube.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-19">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Sept_16/ai_n6196715">"Citizens United to Premiere 'Celsius 41.11 - the Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die'; Documentary Challenges Lies in 'Fahrenheit 9/11', Deconstructs John Kerry,"</a> Business Wire (FindArticles.com), September 16, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-20">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMvMOGn0w7w&mode=related&search=">"Fred Thompson, Citizens United Ad" (Part 1) (2004)</a>, YouTube, November 8, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-21">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YDYkmFHfWo&mode=related&search=">"Fred Thompson, Citizens United Ad" (Part 2) (2004)</a>, YouTube, November 8, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-22">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200706190012">"Newsweek touted Thompson's</a> 'willing[ness] to buck his party' in committee investigation, but not his later reported capitulation," Media Matters for America, June 19, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-23">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ipsn.org/court_cases/part_5_investigation.htm">105th Congress; 2nd Session. House Committee on Government Affairs; Senate Report 105-167 Part 5: Investigation of Illegal or Improper Activities in Connection with 1996 FedElection Campaigns,"</a> Ordered to be printed March 10, 1998.</li>

<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-24">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258222,00.html">Transcript of Thompson's March 2007 appearance on Fox News Sunday</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-25">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258222,00.html">Transcript of Thompson's March 2007 appearance on Fox News Sunday</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-26">↑</a> Fred Thompson, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTQzYWY1MGM5NTkyZTM2YWVlMDMzMDlhMzQwNThhNDU=">"Plutonic Warming,"</a> National Review, March 22, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-27"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-27">↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6708609.stm">"US actor will run for president,"</a> BBC, May 31, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-28">↑</a> Ari Berman, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=200867">"Thompson's Team,"</a> The Nation, May 31, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-29"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-29">↑</a> Michael D. Shear and Dan Balz, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053000583_2.html?nav=rss_nation">"Thompson Bid Would Stir Up GOP Race,"</a> Washington Post, May 30, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-30"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-30">↑</a> Liz Sidoti, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ashlandcitytimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070601/NEWS0201/70601048">"Mary Matalin among those expected to play role in Thompson campaign,"</a> Associated Press (Asland City Times), June 1, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-31"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-31">↑</a> Mike Allen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0607/4309.html">"Key Bush backers rally to Fred Thompson,"</a> The Politico, June 4, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-32"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-32">↑</a> Stephen F. Hayes, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/764cbfmo.asp">"Hawks for Thompson. Thompson puts together a foreign policy team</a> The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-33"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_ref-33">↑</a> Philip Giraldi, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=11438">"Neolibs and Neocons, United and Interchangeable,"</a> Antiwar.com, August 14, 2007.</li>

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<h3>Websites</h3>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.draftfredthompson.com/">Draft Fred Thompson</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.PhoneyFred.org">PhoneyFred.org</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Thompson#cite_note-34">[1]</a></li>

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<h3>Articles by Fred Thompson</h3>

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<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ZDA3ODFkNTA4NDM3YWYzMzc0NWQ1NjY4ZjhkZjkwNDI">"First Things First,"</a> National Review Online, May 14, 2007.</li>

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