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Among the thornier questions that investigators will have to examine, officials said, is whether Mr. Smith's intimate relationship with Ms. Leung — spanning nearly two decades — compromised the F.B.I.'s highly sensitive investigations in the late 1990's into allegations that Chinese officials tried to launder campaign contributions illegally to the 1996 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Yeah, that's a thorny question - whether an FBI agent's relationship with a Republican activist and fundraiser compromised the investigation of Clinton's crotch.
UPDATE: On reading it this morning I suppose that could be read as 'compromising' either way, but the Times' whole history with "clinton scandals" has been about publishing innuendo.