If Newt offered advice to Freddie “as a historian” that its lending practices were insane. He was dead right.
They should have followed his advice.
So you are mad at Newt because he gave Freddie good advice, and got paid for it.
I wish some of the others who got paid by the Government gave such good advice.
If paid someone THAT MUCH $$$$ for advice, I would do it because I felt they were BRILLIANT and I could find it no one else who had such "depth" -- AND I WOULD USE that PAID FOR brilliance. Unless of course it was, as the article suggests, to keep him on a leash.