"In the same case the deputy chair of the IPCC was summoned one early evening to see one of the three permanent secretaries of the Home Office to discuss the merits or otherwise of its decision to disclose crucial information the next day to the family of the deceased at a time when the media was awash with speculation and erroneous accounts of how Jean Charles de Menezes had died.
Michael Garcia resigned after his appeal against the decision to publish what he described as an "erroneous" summary of his 430-page report was rejected on Tuesday.
Buckingham Palace denied any suggestion the monarch is unwell after erroneous breaking news reports said she had been admitted to King Edward VII's hospital, a private facility in Marylebone, London.
There has also been a totally erroneous whisper campaign, backing Dimon, that JP Morgan deserves no blame for the mortgage troubles, which came primarily from stepchildren Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns.
Garcia said the 42-page summary published in November by the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, which effectively cleared the 2018 hosts Russia and the 2022 hosts Qatar of serious wrongdoing during the chaotic bidding process, contained "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of facts and conclusions".
The erroneous belief that open access equals "author pays" further muddies the waters.
It may also have been erroneous: there was now virtually no presence up front, no one to relieve the pressure.
"But they all appear to be based on the erroneous notion that our editorial policies preclude people commenting on contentious issues like climate change if their views are considered by others to be inaccurate," Leavitt said.
Amihai Mazar, professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says that myth stemmed from an erroneous claim by the former Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, on a visit to Egypt in 1977, that Jews built the pyramids.
But Lynch said news reports citing the FBI inquiry as directly related to a hate-crime investigation were "erroneous", repeating that the agency was currently conducting a "preliminary, parallel enquiry".
Calling all dysfunctional singing families Of all the erroneous rumours I have heard of late - some of them not even involving myself - the suggestion that members of the Jackson 5 are being lined up to mentor other musical family acts seemed the most barking.
