Using your same logic, did it say anywhere in the statement that she resigned under any type of pressure, or any other implied reason.  So why was this even news!

I just love the way you have to truncate the passage in order to defend it.  Seventh official to resign since when?  Why, since the Democrats started their witch hunt in the wake of the firings of nine federal prosecutors, of course.  That is the principal focus of the piece, and as we've become so accustomed, it's built on a premise of sheer BS.  Try again

Apparently, ding, you forgot where all this crap started. This is tied into the shameless performance by Patrick Leahy on Meet the Press, and the unwillingness of Tim Russert to stop him. Leahy was discussing a number of issues, but they all come down to the same, core problem. Before the election, the Democrats promised to hound the administration with investigations and hearings. Then, Scooter Libby was convicted, not for any crime itself, but for discrepancies in what he told the FBI and a grand jury about the Valerie Plame affair. The obvious lesson that Republicans learned is not to open your mouth, because everything you say will be used against you, and construed against you, and twisted against you, by the Democrats. So when the Democrats issue broad subpoenas asking for everything under the sun, and to put everyone under oath, the administration refuses, because they know these are just perjury traps.

Does any of that get on Meet the Press? No. Leahy blames everything on the idea that the president thinks he is above the law. Russert never challenges that assumption. Of course, there is no Republican on the program to contradict Leahy’s distortions. That's standard practice on Meet the Press, that they get around by calling it an "exclusive." Then, like the distortion mentioned in Lloyd’s article above, Leahy says, “Look at the Department of Justice, look what has happened here. You have as an attorney general somebody—nobody has confidence in him. Republicans don’t; Democrats don’t. Most of the key members of the Department of Justice are resigning. In fact, just about a week ago one resigned rather than come and have to testify under oath.” The refusal to testify under oath was because the Senate was conducting a witch-hunt, not because the attorney general had no respect for the law.

Russert never challenges that. Russert asks Leahy how he will proceed with the subpoenas, not with the central premise of why they’re issued in the first place. Russert even served up the "Nixon" softball. He asks Leahy why he accused Bush of being “Nixonian,” which gives Leahy the chance to link Bush to Nixon.

Utterly shameless.