The Assistant U.S. Attorney who handled both the Boston and Alexandria cases said after the dismissal, "It was the Boston prosecuting effort which led to the evidence which allowed the indictment and convictions in Alexandria, and I think justice was served by the substantial sentences received".
Senators also turned back Republican proposals to expand permission to carry concealed weapons and to focus law enforcement efforts on prosecuting gun crimes.
At Nuremberg, the U.S. led the effort in prosecuting Third Reich officials who provided the legal basis for Nazi war crimes.
The trial was followed closely by traffic-safety advocates who had hoped it would legitimize efforts to prosecute people who drive when they are dangerously tired.
And as people tied to recruiting and raising money have been prosecuted, any such efforts, young Somalis said, seemed to have shifted largely to the Internet and videos.
He rounded out the White House's two days of relayed regrets and legal and historical argument by saying Mr. Clinton believed he could eventually be prosecuted for his efforts to conceal his affair with Ms. Lewinsky.
When the courts sought to ban an unprecedented academic conference on the Armenian question in September, five university lecturers complained in the newspapers and were prosecuted for their efforts.
"Although the Government has taken some positive steps both in the military and civilian sectors to investigate and prosecute violators, such efforts need to be more systematic and include high profile perpetrators," stated Ms. Coomaraswamy.
Some Secret Service officials believe he should be prosecuted in an effort to deter others.
The bombing campaign in Afghanistan seemed to be going well (if such awful work can be said to go well), and the coalition of governments assembled to prosecute the antiterrorist effort was apparently holding together, including its brittle Pakistani keystone.
Khodorkovsky, 40, denies the charges, and has long said the efforts to prosecute him are actually part of an effort to punish him for his political opposition to President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin and to take over his company.
