Let us try to sound Tolstoyian: All honest families are alike; all dishonest families are dishonest in their own way.

And what a way the Clinton clan has. The twists and turns in the sordid Clinton saga are as hard to keep up with as the plot of a Russian novel. The latest chapter involves two heretofore minor characters usually brought in to provide comic relief: Roger Clinton and Hugh Rodham. Both are now central figures in the widening pardon controversy, the subjects of separate reports suggesting they were peddling Presidential...