The Week

The White House counsel was so slow in responding to the presidential subpoena because such matters are usually handled by interns.

Mike McCurry steps down as White House press secretary, trailing clouds of glory: “Famous for Banter,” wrote the Washington Post; “really, really good at what he does,” said Bill Plante, CBS. What he was really, really good at was stonewalling, which outside Washington is known as lying. His latest stonewall, just after his announcement, was to deny knowing whether the President had been subpoenaed (the President had been subpoenaed ten days earlier). Exactly the farewell gift a charmed Washington press corps deserved.