"By definition, the president cannot leak"
"A day after it was revealed that President Bush authorized the release of sensitive pre-war intelligence, his spokesman did not deny the information was leaked by the White House. But spokesman Scott McClellan said it had been declassified and was made public as a defense against allegations the intelligence was manipulated. McClellan said the information from the National Intelligence Estimate was "historical" and the public needed to know the contents..."If Bush thought the 'public needed to know' then why didn't he have a simple news conference instead of having Libby secretly leak the information to Judy Miller? It would seem to me that if you had valuable information that the public needed to know about, you'd be happy to stand up and tell the whole country instead of giving it exclusively to some mole you have working for you at the NY Times. Keep talking, Scotty.
"I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action." [Bush Remarks: Chicago, Illinois, 9/30/03]The Bush administration leaked far more 'manipulated' information than the recently acknowledged NIE incident: Here's a nice morsel of info. for you:
"As the war approached, the White House released other documents and statements containing allegations about Saddam's weapons and ties to terrorism, many of which included information from Iraqi defectors and other sources that already had been discredited. Among those was a document published in October 2002, titled "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs," which was a public version of the National Intelligence Estimate's main points - but with doubts and dissents stripped out".Let me explain those last two paragraphs to all you Bush ass-kissers. Bush not only authorized leaks, he only leaked the information that didn't contradict his lying. He was cherry picking. All you fools who fell for it should be totally embarrassed. ...You were all such weak and pathetic little sheep...
