When it comes to unraveling a Washington scandal, the best clues often come from the most clueless. They are the bit players so earnestly inept that it is hard to separate what was diabolical from what was merely dumb. So it was in the best Washington tradition that congressional investigators were focusing their attention last week on a former interior designer with a remarkable knack for placing herself near the hot spots of trouble for her old friend, Bill Clinton.
Marsha Scott, the chief of staff in the Presidential Personnel Office, is one of several well-entrenched Clinton aides from Arkansas whose...