In times like these, newspaper pages are peppered with gossip swirling around the scandal. Who is the girl? Will we see more texts, more photos, more scurrilous details? Will the wife stand by her man? Blah, blah, blah and blasé….

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — If you knew Tim Griffin only by what you’d read about him in the press of late, here’s how you might describe the new U.S. attorney from Arkansas: Political hack. Hatchet man for the Republicans. Legal…