Still, one case of complicity was brought to the attention of the court — that of Dr. Hans Globke, who, more than twenty-five yeago ago, was co-author of an infamous commentary on the Nuremberg Laws and, somewhat later, author of the brilliant idea of compelling all German Jews to take "Israel" or "Sarah" as a middle name, and who is today one of Adenauer's closest advisers.
Just as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) exposed dangerous levels of collusion between government and industry, so the floods have begun to expose similar cases of complicity and corruption.
With a judicial success rate in the apprehension and prosecution of journalists' killers at under two per cent, many see a pattern of official complacency, and, in some cases, of complicity.
In 2009 Shell paid $15.5m in an out-of-court settlement in a case accusing it of complicity in human rights abuses in Nigeria.
He has tried to weed out the more dubious of the 19 cases of alleged complicity in torture abroad.
The government says it is currently impossible for it to defend itself against cases of alleged complicity in torture in open court as the disclosure of sensitive information could endanger British agents and compromise relationships with key allies.
The most prominent case of supposed company complicity — the execution of Mr. Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Ogoni tribe — led to fierce protests against Shell, which was already under heavy criticism from environmentalists for its record in the Niger Delta.
It goes without saying, that in the case of Amber Cole, such complicity is indeed criminal; under the law, a 14-year-old cannot consent to sex acts.
Mr. Freeh, for whom the investigation had become a personal priority, said additional people could be accused of complicity in the case.
Saudi Arabia's refusal to allow F.B.I. access to suspects in that attack, which killed 19 American servicemen, caused a diplomatic furor, and remained unresolved until more than two years later, when the Saudis executed three men convicted of complicity in the case.
He had already been ordered freed pending trial on two other cases, including a retrial on charges of complicity in the deaths of 800 protesters at the end of his regime in January 2011.
