Meanwhile in the US, the trial of an accused Lashkar-e-Taiba operative has produced a stream of embarrassing allegations linking ISI officers to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
The loss of Leslie amid a welter of embarrassing allegations about his private life came as another blow to the already beleaguered programme.
Both officials have faced embarrassing allegations that dinners and parties with the Murdochs, including a gathering that Mr. Cameron attended on Mr. Murdoch's yacht, reveal an inappropriate coziness that may have influenced the BSkyB deal.
Another reason is that the politicians have had most of the hard work done for them by Paul van Buitenen, an internal auditor with the commission who turned whistle-blower and handed out a fat dossier of embarrassing allegations last month.
Mr Ahern's timing was off, his campaign was in disarray, and he faced embarrassing allegations about undeclared loans and gifts received when he was finance minister in the 1990s.
The U.S. got caught paying a German intelligence operative $34K to spy on the German group created to investigate the U.S.'s spying on Germany — at least according to the most recent crop of embarrassing allegations into the NSA's surveillance activities.
Embarrassed by allegations that ten military men were involved in the Colombian scandal of buying women for the sex of prostitution, the US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Martin Dempsey, seemed most concerned that "We let the boss down".
Nearly one in six MPs have had their online Wikipedia entries changed from Parliament and dozens of the alterations appear to be attempts to erase embarrassing or disputed allegations made during the 2009 expenses scandal.
Nearly one in six politicians had their online Wikipedia entries changed from inside Parliament and dozens of the alterations appeared to be attempts to erase embarrassing or disputed allegations made during the 2009 expenses scandal.
Some European politicians and business leaders who struck, or facilitated, deals with the Gaddafi regime are anxiously waiting to hear if Tripoli's abandoned ministries contain embarrassing documents or allegations.
