McNulty Leaves Justice

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has resigned from the Department of Justice. Naturally, he cites his family as a reason for his departure (he's creative, though - it's not "to spend time with my family" but "the financial realities of college-age children"), and did not mention the prosecutors purge.

But according to the AP:

McNulty has been considering leaving for months, and aides said he never intended to serve more than two years as deputy attorney general. But his ultimate decision to step down, the aides said, was hastened by anger at being linked to the prosecutors' purge that Congress is investigating to determine if eight U.S. attorneys were fired for political reasons.

And apparently, Gonzales was mad that McNulty occasionally told the truth:

McNulty also irked Gonzales by testifying in February that at least one of the fired prosecutors was ordered to make way for a protege of Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser. Gonzales, who has resisted lawmakers' calls to resign, maintains the firings were proper, and rooted in the prosecutors' lackluster performances.

Three down.  When's Gonzales going to go?

Update:The Gavel has Rahm Emanuel's response:

Another resignation won’t make the unanswered questions about the fired U.S. Attorneys disappear. We continue to wait for answers: Who developed the list of the US Attorneys to be fired? How did U.S. Attorneys end up on that list? What happened to the public corruption cases those U.S. Attorneys were investigating at the time of their departures? For months, Democrats have been seeking straight answers about the prosecutor purge. Democrats will continue our aggressive investigation into this serious matter. Resignations are no substitute for the truth.