Watergate, of course, had all the hallmarks of the modern scandal: it was, in essence, not about the precipitating illegality but about the act of covering it up.
The Clinton Cash story is not about illegality, it's about innuendo and inconsequential circumstantial "evidence".
Wiretaps by the Federal Bureau of Investigation caught Mr. Freveletti, who is not charged with illegality, fuming about his firm's not getting state bond business in return for his loyal service to Blago as a bundler, or fund-raiser assembling multiple contributions.
Talk about illegality, there's no difference between the country that we are in now and the time of the Cultural Revolution".
For a few mad days it seemed as though every paranoid theory about illegality and cover-up in Fleet Street was proved correct.
"Although the evidence that had been presented by the opposition was very selective, there were questions about illegality related to today's vote, the advanced voting and the postal voting.
So is this really about illegality?
Of course, Apple's point is about illegality.
"The First Amendment would require that the government can't prevent people from whistleblowing about illegality, waste, fraud, or abuse occurring the in the government, because the government has a great need to know about those things".
