In an ever-growing trend, Al Hubbard, director of President George W. Bush’s National Economic Council, will step down by the end of the year. The president had asked all employees who wanted to leave his administration before it commenced to hand in their resignations by September. Hubbard now joins Fran Townsend and Karen Hughes in bucking that request. Karl Rove obliged.

Earlier: Why Did Fran Townsend Resign?

And: Karen Hughes Suspiciously Resigns from White House

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Longtime Bush confidante Karen Hughes is leaving the White House, ABC News is reporting. The move is somewhat suspicious considering that President Bush had asked all advisers who planned on resigning from his administration to do so before September. Hughes already left the administration once in 2002, but returned in 2004. Condoleezza Rice is expected to share more on the resignation later today.

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