Woodward v. Thompson
by Ryan Sager
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 at 12:57 AM
updated Tue, 19 Jun 2007 at 12:26 AM
With how well Fred Thompson is doing in the polls these days, you can expect lots of people to come out of the woodwork to weigh in with their attacks or accolades.
Yesterday, Bob Woodward took a shot in a Washington Post online chat at Mr. Thompson's role in the Watergate hearings. Mr. Thompson is often credited with asking a question that led to the disclosure of the fact that President Nixon had installed recording devices in the Oval Office.
Mr. Woodward said Mr. Thompson's role has been exaggerated...
According to Raw Story:
A questioner from Fairfax, Va., asked Woodward's opinion of Thompson and noted that Thompson had asked a crucial question about secret White House tape recordings when he was minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee.
The veteran journalist, whose early reporting was instrumental in uncovering the scandal, said that when Thompson asked the question, he already "knew the answer -- because three days before the public testimony, lawyers and investigators for the committee got Butterfield to reveal the existance of the secret tape-recording system. Though Thompson seems to get public credit for asking this critical question, it was the work of others on the committee staff who dug out Butterfield's revelation in a lengthy interview on a hot Friday afternoon on July 13, 1973."
This strikes me as entirely plausible, as prosecutors don't ask questions to which they don't already know the answers (at least that's what I've learned from "Law & Order"). And Mr. Woodward should certainly know.
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