The committee proceeded, eventually producing a stinging report critical of government's response to the disaster.

One stinging report by the station found that the Government was spying on journalists and opposition figures.

In the last week, commissions in both houses of the PRI-dominated legislature put out stinging reports on the lack of progress in the Colosio case.

Congressional Democrats issued a stinging report about the deficit's long-term consequences through the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.

In a stinging report last week, a Council on Foreign Relations task force called on the Bush administration to rethink its "partnership" with Russia.

As a result of a stinging internal report in 2003 that said Shell, whether intentionally or not, "creates, feeds into or exacerbates conflict," the company revamped its community relations strategy.

But in a stinging report last month, the Presidential review panel said the Administration's efforts to tighten security at the nuclear labs were hamstrung by bureaucratic arrogance and foot-dragging.

Sanjoy Hazarika; India released stinging report on Gandhi's Death.

And the Government is poised to release a stinging report about race and the police that is likely to order nothing less than a sea change in British police culture.

Even if the Iran-contra investigations turn up no sour surprises, the hearings will run their course and produce stinging reports.