As in Watergate, the courts proved better able to deal with official wrongdoing than Congress.

As questions arose, the accusers were too quick with the noose - suggesting cover-up of official wrongdoing.

Federal investigators who are both honest and diligent will find plenty of evidence of official wrongdoing waiting for them in Tulia.

Recruits practice objecting out loud to a witnessed act of official wrongdoing.

The last month has been unusually intense as Parliament concluded three separate inquiries into official wrongdoing.

The letter also said that Father Barrios was never charged with any official wrongdoing.

Newspapers publish exposes of official wrongdoing for which, only recently, they would have been closed.

That limits what many had seen as one of the few effective checks on official wrongdoing, reporters and editors said.

He also demanded that the Administration present a proposal explaining precisely how accusations of official wrongdoing would be handled without an independent counsel.

But today, sources are less likely to be seen by the public as brave whistle-blowers or Deep Throats revealing official wrongdoing.