Too Much Dirty Laundry for the Republicans also !!!!
As long as she is running for some political office, she can, with the media lapdogs agreeing in unison, claim that any attempts to go after her by Ashcroft or the Bush Administration are designed to "interfere" with the election and "rig it" in favor of Jeb. She believes that Ashcroft and Bush won't pursue her, and she is probably right.
If she wins the Dem primary (not a cinch), no one at DOJ will want to go after her until 2003. By that time, the defenses of "old news," "won't you ever let it go" and the like can and will be used. In addition, some of the investigatory trails will have gone cold. And of course, we can't forget about the "poor, elderly, Parkinson's-ravaged woman" defense.