A 2015 royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse found that Houston Jr had failed to report the allegations to the police and had tried to downplay his conflict of interest.
Mr. Blumenthal said it "downplayed the predator threat," relied on outdated research and failed to provide a specific plan for improving the safety of social networking.
"Mr Browne repeatedly downplayed the negative aspects of the situation in Iraq and failed to ensure the dissemination of a full and unvarnished version of the truth on the ground in Iraq.
However, the candidate and his spokespeople quickly found their charges downplayed after reporting in the Crescent City's Times-Picayune that failed to corroborate the charges.
Overall, his story was used to buttress CBS' implication that top U.S. officials downplayed the terrorism threat in Benghazi prior to the attacks and failed to protect or rescue personnel there once the situation grew dire.
Each of them described delays that they attributed to the outcome of their initial visit: an initial diagnosis of a non-serious illness that led them to downplay their symptoms even as they worsened [P1, P4], or receipt of medication offered reassurance even when symptoms failed to improve [P3].
27,28,31 However, several studies have failed to show a correlation between the Unified Parkinson's Disease rating scale (UPDRS) motor score and beta activity at rest across patients, leading some to downplay its significance.
The White House earlier downplayed a separate Washington Post report into a shooting incident in 2011, which the Post says the secret service failed to properly investigate.
Girls failed to materialize.
Meanwhile, WND was eager to downplay -- and fail to fully report -- Taitz's involvement in another birther case.
