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The -gate scandals Once upon a time, scandals had cool names like Teapot Dome and Whiskey Ring. Now they all go through the same linguistic portal, with “gate” as a suffix.
Watergate
Democratic offices in the Watergate building the morning after the break-in, June 17, 1972.
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Ken Feil
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Whitewatergate
An aerial view on Jan. 20, 1994, of land in Flippin, Ark., owned by the Whitewater Development Corp. Whitewater business dealings by Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and their associates became the focus of intensive investigations.
Mike Stewart
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AP
Cablegate
Julian Assange, center, the founder of the whistle-blowing WikiLeaks, arrives at court before winning the right to petition the British Supreme Court to review his extradition to Sweden in London, Dec. 5, 2011. Cablegate began when WikiLeaks released classified U.S. government cables.
Oli Scarff
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Filegate
Former White House personnel security chief Craig Livingstone, right, confers with unidentified counsel during his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Captol Hill in Washington, June 28, 1996. Livingstone testified on his knowledge of how his office obtained more than 700 confidential FBI files, most of them involving prominent Republicans.
Travis Heying
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Monicagate
A photograph showing then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky meeting President Bill Clinton at a White House function was submitted as evidence in documents by the Starr investigation and released by the House Judicary committee on Sept. 21, 1998. The Monicagate scandal resulted from the president's affair with Lewinsky.
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Camillagate
Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker Bowles walk around the Sandringham Flower Show in Norfolk, England, on July 28, 2004. In the Camillagate scandal, a phone conversation between the pair was recorded in secret and revealed in the tabloids. They later married.
Matthew Usher
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AP
Troopergate (Sarah Palin)
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accepts the Republican vice presidential nomination on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., on Sept. 3, 2008. The Palin Troopergate scandal centered around Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, who claimed Palin fired him because he refused to take action against a state trooper who was divorcing Palin’s sister.
Chip Somodevilla
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Troopergate (Bill Clinton)
Troopergate was also the name for the scandal in which Arkansas state troopers said they had arranged sexual liaisons for Bill Clinton, seen in 1986 while he was governor of Arkansas.
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AP
Troopergate (Eliot Spitzer)
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, right, looks on as Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno speaks during a ceremony at the New York State Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Albany, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 2007. Spitzer's administration ordered state police to create records of Bruno's whereabouts when he traveled with police escorts.
Mike Groll
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AP
Horsegate
An anti-government protester holding a placard with a photo of British Prime Minister David Cameron, chants slogans during a protest outside the Portcullis House, adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in central London, on July 19, 2011. Cameron became embroiled in Horsegate after he admitted riding a horse lent to former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks by the Metropolitan Police.
Lefteris Pitarakis
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AP
Billygate
Billy Carter, brother of President Jimmy Carter, shakes hands with Ahmed Shahati of Libya on Feb. 5, 1979. The Billygate influence-peddling scandal stemmed from Carter’s visits to Libya in the late 1970s.
Tom Allen
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The Washington Post
Pardongate
A happy Patty Hearst displays the executive grant of clemency as she leaves the Federal Correctional Institution in Pleasanton, Calif., Feb. 2, 1979. With her is fiance Bernard Shaw, her former bodyguard. The controversy surrounding presidential pardons has been dubbed Pardongate.
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AP
Nipplegate
Singers Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson are seen during their Feb. 1, 2004, performance prior to a "wardrobe malfunction" during the halftime performance at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, dubbed Nipplegate.
David Phillip
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AP
Weinergate
After admitting he had tweeted a lewd photo of himself, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) resigned from office.
AP
Hackgate
Rebekah Brooks, left, former chief executive of News International, leaves a lawyer's office after addressing the media in London on May 15, 2012. The News International phone-hacking scandal has been dubbed Hackgate.
Carl Court
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AFP/Getty Images
Bountygate
Brett Favre takes a hard hit from the Saints in 2010. In the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, several players were found to have run a slush fund that paid out "bounties" for performance.
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Antennagate
Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the iPhone 4 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on July 16, 2010. Complaints of dropped calls led to Antennagate.
Paul Sakuma
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AP
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