ThinkProgress: BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/14/breaking-deputy-attorney-general-mcnulty-to-resign/

BREAKING: Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty To Resign



The AP reports:

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said Monday he will resign, the highest-ranking Bush administration casualty in the furor over the firing of U.S. attorneys, The Associated Press has learned.

McNulty, who has served 18 months as the Justice Department’s second-in-command, announced his plans at a closed-door meeting of U.S. attorneys in San Antonio, according to two senior department aides. He said he will remain at the department until this fall or until the Senate approves a successor, the aides said.

UPDATE: Last week, the New York Times suggested that McNulty was considering resigning, possibly over a growing divide between his supporters and those of Gonzales:

here has been tension between Gonzales loyalists and backers of Paul J. McNulty, the deputy attorney general.

Friends of D. Kyle Sampson, Mr. Gonzales’s former top aide, and Mr. Sampson’s former deputy, Monica Goodling, blame Mr. McNulty’s February testimony for accelerating the furor over the ousters by prompting prosecutors to speak openly about their dismissals. But Mr. McNulty’s allies have faulted Mr. Sampson for misleading Mr. McNulty and other officials about the origin of the dismissals and the extent of White House involvement.

Mr. McNulty is said by associates to be considering whether to step down soon.

[grasswire]

1. yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!

I've been hoping his smarmy face would go away from the public's business for a long time.

Will he get a signing bonus somewhere? Or will he pop up in just another incarnation?

[babylonsister]

2. Maybe a medal?

:shrug: