ask questions

Right now, “active scandal” is the level at which it’s appropriate to ask questions and work behind the scenes for a new nominee.

“They ask questions,” Maffini said of the agency scientists, “but then there’s really nothing they can do.”

This made it harder for them to do their duty as directors to exercise independent judgement and check Al Fayed’s power - or ask questions which may have revealed more to them about how he was treating women.

It had caused a scandal in the 1990s after he paid MPs to ask questions in the House of Commons - and then exposed those who had accepted his gifts.

He could leave things as they are and just never call on any reporter who doesn’t ask questions he wants to answer.