“The New York Times says ‘there had been rumblings over the weekend,’ but ‘the White House sought to quell the rumors.’ In his ‘Washington Sketch’ column for the Washington Post, Dana Milbank writes that faced with the rumors, ‘the attorney general directed his spokesman to deny’ them. Adds Milbank, ‘For a man accused of lying to Congress, it was a fitting way to go out.'”

[USNews.com]