clean hands

In war, there are no clean hands.

Allen smeared election officials as lacking “clean hands,” maligning them for the crime of following the law as written.

The trigger for the sudden crisis was the decision by a Spanish judge to entertain a complaint from Clean Hands, a group known for filing cases in court against politicians and other prominent Spaniards.

Given the track record of Clean Hands, which has presented a litany of unsuccessful lawsuits against politicians in the past, the public prosecutors' decision is not necessarily surprising.

The allegations against Gómez were made by a group called Manos Limpias, or “Clean Hands.”