Preliminary accusations against him range from vandalism to harming national security, charges that are routinely levelled at the thousands arrested in an aggressive state-led crackdown that followed Morsi's overthrow.
For many posters, playing the "consistency" card is merely preliminary to the accusation they really want to make, the accusation that the boycotters are anti-Semites.
PARIS — The Paris prosecutor's office on Friday opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund who is accused of sexually assaulting a New York hotel housekeeper, tried to rape a French journalist during an interview in 2003, an official at the prosecutor's office said.
On Monday, the International Criminal Court in The Hague opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that the North committed war crimes in the Nov. 23 attack and in a March torpedo strike on a South Korean ship, the Cheonan, which killed 46 sailors, the court's prosecutor said in a statement.
The office has built such a strong reputation of nonpartisanship and professionalism in conducting discreet preliminary investigations of accusations against House members that it stands as a powerful argument for creating a parallel office in the Senate, which has no such ethics monitor.
The Pentagon's inspector general today opened a preliminary inquiry into an accusation against the Army's highest-ranking woman, Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy, who has accused another Army general of sexual misconduct, senior defense officials said.
After investigating the other complaint, the commission has "come to the preliminary conclusion that the accusations made against Intel are unfounded," she said.
He denied the accusation at a preliminary hearing at the ICC last September.
Paris prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into French government accusations that Assad's government committed crimes against humanity.
But law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the F.B.I. was likely to open a preliminary investigation into the new accusations to determine whether a full investigation was warranted.
In the second article of impeachment, which accuses Mr. Clinton of obstructing justice, the committee staff has laid out eight examples that they believe bolster the accusation, according to two preliminary versions of the resolution.
