But instead of feeling vindication, or at least relief for having told their stories, some of these women are now filled with dread, because Kevin Donovan – the Toronto Star investigative reporter with whom I reported the allegations against Ghomeshi – is writing a "tell-tale, behind the scenes" book about Ghomeshi's "secret life".
The verdict is also a clear vindication for Essendon coach James Hird who was suspended for 12 months in August 2013 as part of a range of heavy penalties handed down by the AFL over the supplements program.
I talked to Thatcher about my concern that any compromise then would have fatal long-term consequences, given Scargill's capacity to present such an outcome as a vindication of his stand.
Empey's victory would not only be portrayed as a comeback for the UUP but also as a vindication of his decision to enter into a formal alliance with David Cameron.
That reality, and its vindication of the miners' stand, is well understood 30 years later, and reflected in the power of contemporary films such as Pride and the new documentary Still the Enemy Within.
He added that he won't rest until he receives "total and absolute vindication".
Thursday night's result was a vindication for Cameron's much-criticised decision to run a largely negative campaign, stressing the risks to Britain's still-fragile economic recovery of a Labour government that would overspend and drive away investors through taxes aimed at the wealthy and their tax-avoiding practices.
In one sweeping column, he hailed the 1704 capture of Gibraltar "as an opening chapter in democracy's vindication", noted "profound echoes" with today's struggles against autocrats in the Muslim world, and even suggested that "far-sighted" Spaniards might learn to see Britain's Iberian outpost as the rock on which western success was built.
That, says Mark Jaycox of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties-minded pressure group, is a partial vindication of Mr Snowden's whistleblowing.Civil-liberties campaigners are now raising questions about the oversight of the intelligence agencies.
They are vindication of a recent reform to make the chairmen elected by a cross-party vote.
Palestinians see both UN and Saudi positions as vindication of Mr Arafat's long-held negotiating position.As for the Palestinian militias, they are now united around a merciless strategy aimed at Israelis.
