This is an excerpt of what you wrote in post #77:
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
......Baker and Thomspon walked a fine line between what was best for the United States and what was best for the Republican Party. In the end, revealing all of the incriminating evidence in open testimony pretty much sealed the deal on Nixon.
In other words, I think that Thompson worked well with the White House and then turned around and fucked them for the betterment of the country.......
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...it is partisan, IMO, to the degree that it is divorced from what a reasonable person would conclude, after earnestly researching the available record, actually happened. Your idea that Thompson
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....worked well with the White House and then turned around ....
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...is as partisan an opinion as mine would be if I posted that Thompson took the revelation from Sanders and called the white house to warn them about Butterfield's revelations, so that the white house would be alerted to destroy the taped evidence.... Thompson admitted in his 1975 book that, he
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...atergate_role/
...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...
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It is not reasonable to say that Thompson called the white house so that it would know to destroy the taped evidence, and it is not reasonable to say:
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.....Thompson worked well with the White House and then turned around .....
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...5AC0A96F958260
Donald G. Sanders Dies at 69; Brought Nixon Taping to Light
By WILLIAM H. HONAN
Published: September 29, 1999
Donald G. Sanders, a former Senate lawyer who uncovered the White House tapes that led to President Richard M. Nixon's resignation, died on Sunday at a hospital in Columbia, Mo. He was 69.
Mr. Sanders, who lived in Columbia, died of cancer, said his wife, Dolores.
A former F.B.I. agent, Mr. Sanders was a Republican staff lawyer for the Senate committee investigating the Watergate break-in when he brought to light ''the smoking gun'' that eventually pointed to Nixon's complicity in a cover-up of the break-in.
It was in a closed-door preliminary interrogation that Mr. Sanders's curiosity was aroused by seemingly apprehensive answers from Alexander P. Butterfield, Nixon's former appointments secretary.
<h3>Mr. Sanders dug deeper and asked if it were possible that some sort of recording system had been used in the White House.
Mr. Butterfield answered, ''I wish you hadn't asked that question, but, yes, there is.''
Mr. Sanders then hurried to tell Fred D. Thompson, the lead minority counsel who is now a Republican senator from Tennessee.</h3>
''We both knew then it was important,'' Mr. Sanders recalled in a 1997 interview.
Then, in nationally televised hearings, Mr. Thompson asked Mr. Butterfield about the recording system.
<h3>''It was actually Don who discovered the existence of the White House taping system, but he was too unassuming to ever mention it,'' Mr. Thompson said on Monday in an interview with The Associated Press.</h3>
Mr. Sanders had returned to his home state in the 1980's after more than two decades of Federal Government service as a lawyer for Congressional committees, an F.B.I. agent and an Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Gerald R. Ford.
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Don't you think that I anticipate, that, at the very least, I will be subjected to ridicule in a series of one line "drive by" posts, in response to anything I post? I take extreme measures to post almost exclusivey what will "stand up".
I posted that Libby and Wilkes broke the law, they were convicted on multiple charges. I posted that the president committed the crime of pre-emptive aggressive war. I cited in agreement, no less than the opinion of Ben Ferencz the eminent living expert on the issue. A reasonable person could conclude that former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz's opinion on the matter, along with the quotes I've posted of chief Nuremberg Prosecutor Robert Jackson's arguments at the Nuremberg trials, would make an argument reasonable, that, Bush, by ordering pre-emptive war against another sovereign nation, had committed a war crime, a crime against humanity, in that, as Jackson said, all subsequent crimes related to the decision to wage such a war, were the responsibility of those who launched pre-emptive war.
None of these examples from my posts are partisan, because they are reasonable to believe.