With hindsight it seems extraordinary that he could have operated for so long.
Why has the LRA been able to operate for so long?
Dr. Stapel was able to operate for so long, the committee said, in large measure because he was "lord of the data," the only person who saw the experimental evidence that had been gathered (or fabricated).
However, because he has been forced to operate for so long in Saleh's shadow, many doubt whether he possesses the political clout to break free from the influence of his former boss.
"This is in many ways the end of an illusion — the illusion of some sort of grand bargain with Putin, under which Trump has seemed to operate for so long," William Burns, a former U.S. Ambassador to Russia and now the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told me.
Although the agreement with the Department of Justice is an important step toward cleaning up the community, it does not answer the central questions: How was a company allowed to operate for so long with so many violations that endangered so many people?
One of the perplexing questions is how the tabloids were able to operate for so long and engage in lawless conduct with impunity in a legal system that is far less hospitable to free speech and free press than that of the United States.
The authorities were scrambling to determine whether the known members of the group had connections to other undiscovered criminals, as officials from across the political spectrum demanded to know how the group could have operated undetected for so long.
The existence of a deadly cell of neo-Nazis shocked German society when it came to light a year ago, raising questions about how a violent group of renegades could operate undetected for so long and why the police had persisted in searching for ties to Turkish organized crime instead of violent racists.
The eternal oppressor Internet Explorer and its lieutenants, who have occupied our operating systems for so long, are at long last to be removed.
