 Further, the group discusses having information on the report leaked by those on the Committee sympathetic to the President, to put exculpatory information into the public sphere.The phrase has been cited as a summation of the strategy of mixing partial admissions with misinformation and resistance to further investigation, and is used in political commentary to accuse people or groups of following a Nixon-like strategy.Writing in "The Washington Post", Mary McGrory described a statement by Pope John Paul II regarding sexual abuse by priests as a "modified, limited hangout".