And where austerity is inside the president's home, rather than outside it, accusations of selling out can only ring hollow.
The judges may be hoping that contempt proceedings will stop Mr. Hussain from making further accusations outside the courthouse.
Mr. Pearsons said that because of pending litigation, the regents would not disclose the results of an outside investigation into accusations presented to the board.
Most governance experts say that is a tough call, but many note that outside investigations into accusations of internal wrongdoing usually provide more comfort for shareholders.
They have shunned Jews who took accusations outside their communities; in fact, Charles Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, has cited that as a reason for minimizing publicity around child sexual abuse cases among Orthodox Jews.
Among people outside Libya, the accusations seem bizarre and concocted; among most Libyans, it's taken for granted that the children were deliberately infected and that the Bulgarians are the likeliest culprits.
As often happens in cases like these (whether the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, N.Y. or the 1993 abduction and torture of young James Bulger outside Liverpool, England) the accusations and recriminations quickly started to fly.
When she took her discrimination accusation outside the firm three years later, she went from being watched to being unwelcome, she said.
In the same email, Joe Pichirallo, a former newspaper reporter and film executive who became chairman of the undergradute film and television institute last year, chastised Mr. Gunter for making so "serious" an accusation outside of prescribed channels, and apologized to Ms. Grillo.
William Keating of Massachusetts, one of the top Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee, called this week for an outside investigation into the accusations of profiling.
