Fred Thompson, Spy for Nixon

The Boston Globe reports that while serving as minority counsel to the Senate Committee investigating Watergate, Fred Thompson provided the Nixon White House with important information regarding the investigation's revelations.

This is ethically at the level of an attorney representing you in a civil suit conspiring with the opposing counsel to undermine your case.

What makes it worse is that Thompson made his reputation at that time as a "maverick" Republican who was honest enough to put party considerations aside and go after Nixon.

It turns out that he was just another whore for Nixon. If we're going to elect one of Nixon's plumbers to be President in 2008, doesn't Liddy have seniority? Don't the Nixon Whore Union rules require us to give him the first shot?

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