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"HH: Now when Karl [Rove] announced his resignation, he said that [Chief of Staff] Josh Bolten had requested that anyone who wasn't going to go the distance leave now. Are there any other resignations upcoming, Tony Snow?

"TS: I think that probably -- as Josh said the other day, he thinks there are probably a couple coming up in the next month or so. I think the rule was let your intentions be known before Labor Day. But I will let others make their announcements. . . .

"HH: Your intention to go the distance, Tony Snow?

"TS: No, I'm not going to be -- I've already made it clear I'm not going to be able to go the distance, but that's primarily for financial reasons. I've told people when my money runs out, then I've got to go.

"HH: How long will that be?

"TS: I'm not going to tell you.

"HH: Well, come on, make some news.

"TS: No."

Snow, who is married and has three children, makes $168,000 a year.

The Padilla Verdict

Peter Whoriskey writes in The Washington Post: "A federal jury convicted former 'enemy combatant' Jose Padilla on Thursday of terrorism conspiracy charges, handing a courthouse victory to the Bush administration, which had originally sought to imprison him without a criminal trial.

"Padilla was arrested in 2002 for allegedly plotting a radiological 'dirty bomb' attack, but prosecutors chose not to pursue those allegations in court here. But after a three-month trial, they had convinced the jury that Padilla, 36, participated in a South Florida-based al-Qaeda support cell that in the '90s began to send money and people to wage holy war in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo and Somalia. . . .

"The conviction essentially accomplishes through the criminal-court system what the administration had tried to do five years ago by executive fiat. For 3½ years after he was arrested upon reentering the country, Padilla was held without charges at a Navy brig in South Carolina, where he was housed in solitary confinement. The tactic drew fierce criticism from civil liberties advocates. . . .