"When they get a crime involving the right, they do a legitimate investigation" he said.

Call it a failed effort to thwart a legitimate investigation.

"We owe it to the American people to have a legitimate investigation," she said in an interview, and this wasn't it.

Legally, those agents executed in the 1930s were also "purged" without legitimate criminal investigations and court decisions.

If hospitals begin legitimate investigations of their error rate, "the consumer is entitled to know the findings," he says.

If he was conducting a legitimate investigation, he should have the file.

They are using it sparingly to further legitimate investigations.

Under Swiss treaties, Switzerland will turn over bank documents to a foreign government only when there is a legitimate criminal investigation.

"This case has gone past legitimate investigation."

To question him at that point about the nature of his association with her would have been exploitative, more like daytime television than a legitimate investigation.