Fred Thompson and Watergate

Today we find out that the latest conservative idol, the 'New Reagan' or 'Mr. Law and Order' Fred Thompson was the White House mole during the infamous Watergate hearings. According to Scott Armstrong, an investigator for the Democrats on the committee, "Thompson was a mole for the White House. Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was."

As you may recall the Watergate scandal was a 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. by members of President Richard Nixon's administration and the resulting cover-up which led to the resignation of the President.

Over thirty years later we see many of the same cast and crew in Washington that were around in the Watergate years and often found in the highest levels of our government. Fred Thompson is just the latest to come back on the scene. I think we all have had enough of the old ghosts from the Nixon days to last a lifetime. Let's move on...