From Thinkprogress:Former senator Fred Thompson today defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling the AP, “Nobody yet has pointed out any of my clients that didn’t deserve representation.” But the AP reports:
Thompson, who likes to cast himself as a political outsider, earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government for more than 20 years. He lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry’s collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
He also was a lobbyist for deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was widely criticized for endorsing “necklacing,” the gruesome practice of execution where gasoline-soaked tires are thrown over a person’s neck and set ablaze. In September 1991, Aristide said: “The buring tire, what a beautiful tool! … It smells good. And wherever you go, you want to smell it.”
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Fred better watch out for the CIA horror documents. He was part of the team that invented those horrors. Hitler experimented on people, Saddam gassed people and the US set up assassinations, injected syphilis in black men and wiretap illegally. Let's hope that information isn't put in public education for American history.
Fred has many clouds and smoke screens as he comes out. Maybe he to is looking for a younger wife as Rudy does. With is poor record in the Senate and his lobby friends he has to much baggage and when people see him they think is this a TV show?
As I said before Matthews is on the hunt for a Brokeback moment so Fred better be careful. He is trying to call him another Ronald Regan and statesmen but the facts speak to him being just another front man for Big Business and President Cheney.
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