1.   An official fails when he or she identifies the national interest too closely with the interests of his or her own constituency.

2.   Government officials failed also in another hide-and-seek game with foreign correspondents.

3.   The laws have been on the books for Decades, but city officials failed to enforce them.

4.   Officials failed to pass vital information to their superiors.

5.   American military officials have sometimes failed to acknowledge such costly and embarrassing errors in past conflicts.

6.   An independent prosecutor could investigate if police officials failed to -- and then prosecute the cases as well.

7.   And the Dallas Cowboys held on to beat the Arizona Cardinals when the officials failed to call interference on Kevin Smith on the final play.

8.   Army officials failed to provide even rudimentary information about Trofimoff and his career.

9.   At a news conference at George Washington University Hospital, where Cheney was treated for chest pain in November, officials at first failed to disclose his heart attack.

10.   ATF officials failed to inform the Treasury Department of the pending raid on the compound until two days before it took place.