Republicans will soon begin using her incompetent cover-up against Democratic candidates in '98. The sea wall is breaking. The longer Reno resists, the more isolated she becomes and the more reluctant Democrats are going to be to stand beside her. Had Reno named a prosecutor months ago, she could have gone home a heroine of the law. Instead, she is likely to be remembered as an attorney general who had to be threatened with impeachment before doing her duty, after which she was fired by a president to whom she sacrificed her once-sterling reputation for integrity.
Timing is everything.