I was listening to NPR talk about the congresionally mandated panel to look into the repeated sexual assaults that have taken place at the Air Force Academy over the years.
The quote, as best as I can remember it:
"The panel recommended no disiplinary action [for the administrators].
Would you interpret this to mean:
a) The panel recommended that they be given no disciplinary action
or
b) The panel did not recommend any disciplinary action
I'm not asking what they really recommended (if I really cared, I could google it).
As for myself, the more I think about it, the more elusive the meaning is.