First, the attorney general found a way to block any independent investigation of those highly dubious phone calls the president and vice president made from the White House. You know, the ones that were perfectly legal but that Messrs. Clinton and Gore have made it clear they wouldn't make again. When the vice president talked about no controlling legal authority in that context, he might as well have been talking about Janet Reno's role in this administration. As for the other campaign scandals that have gone uninvestigated in any meaningful or competent way, the trail already has grown cold thanks to the Justice Department's diligent search for only small fry. If the attorney general will just continue to consult instead of act, not even the most independent of counsels might be able to get to the bottom of this dankness.
Nothing hides guilt like time.
And so the madcap adventures of Warren G. Clinton continue. Even as this president proclaimed it The Most Ethical Administration in history. And still Janet Reno dithers, deliberates, delays. There apparently is to be no end to it, any more than there is to be an end to Clinton scandals. For it is not the first scandal of an administration that sets its tone, but how that administration treats it.