More personally damaging was the long-running investigation into the leak of the identity of a C.I.A. operative, Valerie Plame, whose husband, Joseph Wilson, was a critic of the administration.
In an interview with the French left-leaning daily newspaper Libération in the wake of the latest revelations, he broke his silence to admit it was personally damaging.
"Although it's sometimes difficult and personally damaging for me to speak out, it's much more difficult for an athlete to betray a peer.
"We had flown more than 400 miles leading a major mission to hit the toughest target in the Pacific involving tons of enemy shipping," he wrote, "personally sunk or damaged two enemy ships, got shot up by a cruiser, got jumped by a Japanese fighter plane, lost an engine which eventually caught fire, flew a crippled B-25 300 miles over water toward a blip of an island".
It may not have damaged her personally.
The fight over the Khan family not only damaged Trump personally but it meant that he missed repeated opportunities to criticize Hillary Clinton, who wrongly claimed last Sunday that FBI director James Comey had exonerated her on her use of private email server.
It will now go back to the lower courts where the lawyers for Robins can try to show that the errors in his profile hurt or damaged him personally.
It is their critics who are wrong, precisely because they are psychologically damaged and personally flawed and, because of this, they have joined the rest of the world's anti-Israel cabal in attacking the Jewish State.
Crashes experienced by others, as opposed to those experienced personally, were especially damaging to attitude, particularly for those who did not bicycle regularly.
