She wasn't named one of the 100 best lawyers in America by National Law Journal but one of the 100 most powerful. None of this was news even during the Clintons' convention coronation. We didn't know how infrequently the Clintons and their friends played by the rules. We still don't know for sure. Washington loves scandals.
Scandals usually depend on mind-numbing details.
They create backlash. And they detract from substance. Just as ClintonCare was about to go down to humiliating defeat on its merits, Whitewater emerged to take the blame. But the Whitewater affair isn't just a scandal. The Clintons aren't just sanctimonious hypocrites.