"When as much American taxpayer money has been exposed as has been, we have the right to know where it is going and who is involved in it," Mr. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, said.
"The military doesn't want to be exposed as having not done its job," Springborg said.
In 1999 Melita Norwood, 87, was exposed as having passed nuclear secrets to Moscow for 40 years.
The New York Times is exposed as having harboured a fantasist and plagiarist among its journalists.
South Korea has been shaken as one prominent person after another has been exposed as having exaggerated, or fabricated, academic accomplishments.
When Tiger Woods was exposed as having multiple affairs, he went straight to therapy, spending 45 days as an in-patient.
When the couple are forced to leave the boat after Julie is exposed as having white and black parentage, he drinks a drop of her blood to prove that he has black blood in him.
No one remembers Oscar Miranda, the 53-year-old Floridian who claimed an age-group record in Boston the year before, only to have been exposed as having jumped into the race after the start.
Williams, who was candid about his own bisexuality, brings fervour to the plot of a celebrity novelist, doting father and carouser who on the eve of being knighted is exposed as having slept with an underage girl.
