What a golden opportunity lost. He could create a list of Democrats: just a politician or two, the rest being high powered but otherwise unknown “Hill Rats”, who are vital to the operations of the offices of leading House Democrats.
Then give the list to a reliable leaker as coming from anyone other than Cawthorne, say the FBI or the Pentagon, saying that they had the drug orgy under surveillance, but have now been told to hush it up.
If the Rats can threaten and control John Roberts, they certainly can do the same with a young Congressman.