Mission accomplished!

Published November 9, 2004 11:05PM (EST)

The Associated Press has just reported that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday. According to the initial three-paragraph wire story, here's why Ashcroft decided to leave:

"'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved,' Ashcroft wrote in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush."

Can we get a color-coded reading on that one?

As they like to say over at the Drudge Report, developing...


By Mark Follman

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