I've never heard of Intertel, but Wikipedia says:

> Nixon's staff also anticipated that the Democratic campaign would employ the services of Intertel

Are you sure you're not garbling the story?

In any case, I would expect an ethical firm to refuse to spy on the president's political opponents and want one that broke the law to be prosecuted, but more importantly, the gaping hole in your analogy is that Nixon directed spying _on his opponents_, but OpenAI did not direct hacking _of HuggingFace_.

What you're doing is more like saying "the American people elected Nixon with a mandate to spy on enemies, so what right do they have to complain?"