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 WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., criticized Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's handling of the CIA leak investigation Tuesday, saying the prosecutor had to have known from the start that it was not a crime to disclose Valerie Plame's identity as an agent.
A fund-raiser for the defense of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Thompson depicted Fitzgerald as out of control, telling ABC News there was "no brake and no check and no balance" on the prosecutor.
Thompson's objections are the same ones Democratic politicians made in the 1990s about independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who spent six years investigating President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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