From this side of the pond.

1 Innocent until proven guilty.

2 What frightens me is the assumption that a congressman can pull strings and get a mistress a security job.

Not that us Brits can moralise on this. Two senior politicians convicted of perjury in the last few years.

And once upon a time a King was reputed to say "Will no one rid me of this turbulant Priest."

The City of Canterbury has been living off the tourist trade on that for 800 years.

Gareth