But another part had to do with Mr. Clinton himself, and with his inveterate ability to appear revealing while actually concealing, to seem to acknowledge even as he technically denies, to control the terms of discourse even at the hands of dogged prosecutors.
Mr. Chun has been dogged by prosecutors for years.
These are some of the questions that bedeviled a group of dogged Italian prosecutors and, as yet, have not been answered.
From the outset, the Louima case represented a particularly dogged effort by prosecutors to enlist police officers against a vile act of official misconduct.
Throughout he has been dogged by Italian prosecutors, who have made allegations about cigarette smuggling and money laundering.Since independence almost two years ago Montenegro has been stable, the economy has grown (though workers are now on strike at the biggest factory) and the country has moved towards Europe.
Mr. Christie has drawn fire from Democrats trying to portray him as the Garden State's version of Kenneth Starr, the Republican prosecutor who dogged Bill Clinton.
The development marks an extraordinary turn of events in a case that had essentially been dormant for years, even after a dogged and independent Italian prosecutor in Milan, Armando Spataro, pursued the Abu Omar case, exposing the classified programme to the world.
An account of a murder trial in Jacksonville, Fla., the film persistently stays in the faces of the 15-year-old defendant, Brenton Butler (who was acquitted), and his family; the dogged defense team; the prosecutor; and detectives assigned to the case.
"Reed was one of the most dogged, tough and skilled prosecutors I knew at the U.S. attorney's office," said Mr. Streeter, now a partner at Dechert.
