Subscribe for news updates every 10 minutes. Share this channel with others. Like/Dislike, Favorite, Comment, Embed on Blog, Facebook Share, and Tweet this video. Get the word out on this channel and video. Get 1 email of the headlines each day tinyurl.com Like on Facebook to get updates tinyurl.com Follow on Twitter to get updates tinyurl.com - Monday June 13 2011 7:47 pm en.wikipedia.org This article provides a list of political scandals of the United States. This list is sorted from most recent date to least recent. The article is organized by presidential terms and then divided into scandals of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches. Members of both parties are listed under the term of the presiding president at the time the scandal took place. Scandals; There is no hard and fast rule defining the scandals. The dictionary defines scandal as 'loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety.' In politics scandal should be kept separate from 'controversy,' (which implies two differing points of view) and 'unpopularity.' Many subjects are controversial, that does not make them scandals. Many politicians make unpopular decisions. Neither are these scandals. A good guideline, is whether or not an action is, or appears to be, illegal. Since everyone, particularly a politician, is expected to be law abiding, breaking the law is, by definition, a scandal. Misunderstandings, breaches of ethics, unproven crimes or cover ...