It took months of political pressure and the threat of a prison sentence, but Bill Clinton is being hauled before Congress over his links to Jeffrey Epstein.
The situation is virtually unprecedented. The last time a former president appeared on Capitol Hill, it was Gerald Ford in 1983. Even then, the man who pardoned Richard Nixon was only there to discuss celebrations marking the Constitution’s bicentennial.
For Mr Clinton, who was impeached in 1998 over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, it is one more controversy in the career of the so-called “Comeback Kid”.
