The United Kingdom has just had a major scandal in which an official at 10 Downing Street had planned to leak to a friendly blogger all sorts of lurid stories about the Conservatives, complete with descriptions of secretsex tapes.
Twelve Secret Service agents and several US military officers were implicated in a night of sex and drink in the Colombian port city ahead of President Barack Obama's visit for a regional summit earlier this month.
Sex may have been an ingredient noticeably absent from Watergate, but there is no suggestion of secret tape recordings in the Oval Office, and no buggings, bribes or break-ins.