Perle's Resignation

Everyone's talking about it. The best rundown I've read about the possible reasons is here. Here's the article that got it all started.

And here's the part that struck me that no one has mentioned yet (though it's probably only a matter of hours before there's an update to Slate's "Richard Perle Libel Watch"):

[Perle's] attorney, Samuel Abeday, told ABCNEWS today Perle is quitting the board altogether so he can sue the news organizations that "falsely accused him of conflicts of interest."

Based on Slate's updates, by my accounting Perle is down to 13 days before the New Yorker and Seymour Hersh are off the hook.

Tick tock.