Bringing back integrity to the White House?

Gale Norton, who resigned as Interior Department secretary Friday, leaves amid a burgeoning ethics scandal that has touched the agency as federal investigators eye links between her former deputy, Steven Griles, and disgraced former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Norton, who turns 52 today, said the investigations were unrelated to her decision to leave, which she said was personal.

Also, now we know why Claude A. Allen, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, resigned last month. If you believed the White House line that he was to spend more time with his family, you were again lied to by this administration. The truth is he was arrested for ripping off Target in a retail theft scheme claiming fraudulent refunds. Times must really be hard on a $161,000 salary.