The WSPF Campaign Task Force then apparently decided to play its own small part in an untoward and undemocratic exercise.
Gerald Ford: Ford had no connection with Watergate, but there are indications that portions of the raw files from his full-field FBI investigation - done in connection with his confirmation hearings before both the Senate and the House of Representatives - somehow ended up in WSPF files.
A separate campaign finance investigation regarding President Ford was launched by the WSPF in July 1976, in the middle of the presidential campaign.
Perhaps the Task Force was maintaining a clipping service for future reference, but there was absolutely no justification for WSPF prosecutors' interest in Ford except as a potential presidential candidate.
Ruff kindly replied the next day that Dole was not then the subject of any investigation, and denied any WSPF responsibility for any media leaks concerning their investigation.
Unlike the dozens of pages of documentation contained in WSPF files about John Connally, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bob Dole, no formally identified WSPF file can be found on Ronald Reagan.
As with many WSPF investigations, the Reagan line of inquiry appears to have simply faded away.
https://spectator.org/the-horror-of-opposition-research-conducted-by-the-government-itself/
Gerald Ford: Ford had no connection with Watergate, but there are indications that portions of the raw files from his full-field FBI investigation - done in connection with his confirmation hearings before both the Senate and the House of Representatives - somehow ended up in WSPF files.
A separate campaign finance investigation regarding President Ford was launched by the WSPF in July 1976, in the middle of the presidential campaign.
Perhaps the Task Force was maintaining a clipping service for future reference, but there was absolutely no justification for WSPF prosecutors' interest in Ford except as a potential presidential candidate.
Ruff kindly replied the next day that Dole was not then the subject of any investigation, and denied any WSPF responsibility for any media leaks concerning their investigation.
Unlike the dozens of pages of documentation contained in WSPF files about John Connally, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, and Bob Dole, no formally identified WSPF file can be found on Ronald Reagan.
As with many WSPF investigations, the Reagan line of inquiry appears to have simply faded away.
https://spectator.org/the-horror-of-opposition-research-conducted-by-the-government-itself/
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