THOMPSON ON FITZGERALD:

Former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson today criticized Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s handling of the C-I-A leak investigation. The Republican former lawmaker said the prosecutor had to have known from the start that it was not a crime to disclose Valerie Plame’s identity as an agent. . . .

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.

Sometimes when history repeats itself, it’s farce both times.