Its founder, Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL, told the committee that "no individual protected by Blackwater has ever been killed or seriously injured", while 30 of its staff had died.By the same token none of its staff has been prosecuted, though 122 have been sacked, including a drunk employee who killed a bodyguard of an Iraqi vice-president and was spirited out of Iraq.
Nobody has been successfully prosecuted, though drugs were linked to many of them.
No interrogator was even prosecuted, though most of the techniques had been learnt from them.
JSTOR told federal prosecutors that it had no intent to see him prosecuted, though MIT remained ambiguous about its wishes.
In not one case have those who helped them been prosecuted, though some have been questioned by the police.Debbie Purdy is one who should take heart.
If they still cannot get a household to cooperate, nonrespondents can be fined or prosecuted — though in practice they rarely are.
The unjudgmental, ultra-realistic portrayal of adultery in Madame Bovary was considered immoral: Flaubert, his publisher and printer were all prosecuted, though they escaped conviction.
At the Nuremberg trials of 1945-46, a military tribunal rejected the old idea that crimes committed under a superior's orders could not be prosecuted, though unlawful orders could be a mitigating factor in sentencing.
Last week the Senate passed a resolution urging that people who refuse to answer particular questions on the census not be prosecuted, though it was doubtful that anyone would be charged with the crime.
Leak cases have long been difficult to investigate and prosecute, though that task has become easier in recent years as a result of communications technology, like e-mail, that can show which officials, among hundreds who might have had access to certain information, were in contact with a reporter.
