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The Press smells blood

President Bush's chief spokesman, Scott McClellan, declined to repeat his earlier assertions that Mr. Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff, had nothing to do with leaking the name of the operative, Valerie Plame of the Central Intelligence Agency, to get back at her husband, a former United States ambassador who had publicly challenged Bush administration policy.

Nor would Mr. McClellan repeat his earlier statements that any White House staff person who had leaked the name should be fired.

Every question that McClellan fields until we see some resolution to this case should begin with, "When will the President follow through with his promise to fire Karl Rove, now that we know that Rove was responsible for breaching national security..."

I'll consider anything less than a Rove resignation a defeat.