Newsweek touted Thompson's "willing[ness] to buck his party" in committee investigation, but not his later reported capitulation

SUMMARY: 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 GOP lawmakers to a fundraising group they claimed had skirted campaign finance laws.

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