Does Comey really think that he should have got into a debate with the President about the exact logistics of a still spurious allegation?
That designation overlooks the Tulsa riots of 1921, in which a white mob, enraged by a spurious allegation that a black teen-ager had attempted to assault a young white woman, was deputized and given carte blanche to attack the city's prosperous black Greenwood section, resulting in as many as three hundred black fatalities.
Using spurious allegations of unfair trade practices, American catfish farmers have been able to hoodwink the federal government into slapping tariffs of up to 64percentt on Vietnamese catfish.
Brennan said, "I am deeply dismayed that some members of the Senate have decided to make spurious allegations about C.I.A. actions that are wholly unsupported by the facts".
Three Al Jazeera journalists were imprisoned in Egypt for more than a year on spurious allegations of belonging to a Muslim Brotherhood cell.
But this time, the White House did little to rebut opponents' spurious allegations that the disabilities convention would let United Nations bureaucrats interfere with home schooling in America.
She told the judge that if the court decided to remove HBJ's immunity there might be "many, many cases of spurious allegations by reference to Instagram over whether diplomats are exercising their diplomatic functions or not.
"I am deeply dismayed that some members of the Senate have decided to make spurious allegations about CIA actions that are wholly unsupported by the facts," Brennan said, intimating that the "legislative branch" may be the guilty party.
"And when they return to the UK they are then pursued for decades afterwards by spurious allegations, what has become a self-inflicted industry, financed by the taxpayer which is yet to produce a single prosecution".
Since the select committee report came out, Tahir Alam, the former chair of the Park View Educational Trust, who was criticised by Clarke, has held a public meeting advertised as a response to "spurious allegations, inaccuracies, gross misrepresentations and 'fictional' narratives" about the affair.
Chris Cassells, a PhD student at Glasgow University, was involved in the campaign to make Snowden rector and says: "Glasgow University students voted for Edward Snowden to rebut precisely these kind of spurious allegations.
