Officials from the governing party rejected reports of wrongdoing in the poll.
The request would also have to be approved by a federal judge who would require evidence to substantiate the reports of wrongdoing.
A few months after General Miller's report, Taguba wrote, General Sanchez, apparently troubled by reports of wrongdoing in Army jails in Iraq, asked Army Provost Marshal Donald Ryder, a major general, to carry out a study of military prisons.
He assiduously elides the entire Nixon history, footnoting every report of wrongdoing or weirdness in a frenzy of pseudoscholarship while passing silently over any fact that does not fit.
But Mr. Rostenkowski's esteem and power on Capitol Hill eroded and then collapsed, starting in 1992, when a federal grand jury began investigating reports of wrongdoing in the House post office.
Peter Oborne, former Chief Political Commentator of the Daily Telegraph, resigned over the incident, claiming that the Telegraph had suppressed reports of wrongdoing in order to maintain advertising income from HSBC.
First the initial reports of wrongdoing, then the declaration that there's no way Trump can get through it unscathed, then the spinning and the denials from the right, then the beginning of a new scandal that distracts from the old one.
"If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done".
In addition, the potential costs to a whistleblower may excuse even legally mandated reporting of organizational wrongdoing (Glazer & Glazer; Martin).
This article has been updated to include a publicly reported denial of wrongdoing by Milchan.
