In the Orlova scenario, he has moved from being merely medically incompetent to taking active part in a criminal cover-up.

Those are valid factors for leniency at sentencing, not excuses for criminal cover-ups, perjuries and devious obstruction of legitimate Congressional inquiry.

Poor judgment or even ignorance is one thing; a criminal cover-up is something else.

But the standard of the office should be higher than that: the White House should symbolize integrity, not legalistic refusals to discuss criminal cover-ups.

The Ruby Ridge case led to a criminal cover-up inside the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

They said, 'We notice you have surrendered Brazilian citizenship,' as though it was some sort of criminal cover-up.

During the Watergate hearings, the White House lawyer John Dean turned on President Nixon and provided devastating testimony detailing his involvement in a criminal cover-up.

On Sunday, the police raided Mitsubishi offices for the second time in search of documents that might provide the basis for charges of a criminal cover-up.

He was also, according to the independent counsel, Lawrence Walsh, part of a criminal cover-up.

Or does he make the case for a criminal cover-up worthy of impeachment?