McNulty out at DOJ. More soon …
Late Update: According to the AP, McNulty announced his decision at a “closed-door meeting of US Attorneys in San Antonio.”
Only for Alberto Update: AG Alberto Gonzales releases statement.
Even Later Update: If I were Gonzales and the White House, I’d see McNulty’s departure as a very unwelcome development. Behind the scenes, supporters of McNulty and Gonzales have been increasingly at odds as the scandal has progressed — with McNulty’s supporters saying he wasn’t kept in the loop and that that the Gonzales clique is made of crooks and the Gonzales supporters (read: Sampson, Goodling, Elston, et al.) saying McNulty let the cat out of the bag in his testimony earlier in the year. (So, McNulty: You guys are crooks; Gonzales: Yeah, whatever, but no one would know if you’d kept your mouth shut.) And it seems clear that McNulty’s been fairly generous with what he’s told the Senate Judiciary Committee, perhaps building on his rapport with Sen. Schumer (D-NY). A lot of this is tea leaf reading, trying to figure out who’s spilling and who’s not. But it’s hard to figure where McNulty gets less forthcoming once he’s no longer part of the administration.
