From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:4439c350$1{at}w3....
> On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:48:37 +0100, Adam wrote:
>
>> "I've constantly expressed my displeasure with leaks,
particularly leaks
>> of classified information."
>>
>> Answers on a postcard to.....
>>
> Good editorial in the Washington Post today on this whole affair.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/08/AR20060408008
95.html
>
> PRESIDENT BUSH was right to approve the declassification of parts of a
> National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq three years ago in order to make
> clear why he had believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons.
> Presidents are authorized to declassify sensitive material, and the public
> benefits when they do. But the administration handled the release
> clumsily, exposing Mr. Bush to the hyperbolic charges of misconduct and
> hypocrisy that Democrats are leveling.
>

The Washington Post had this today

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/04/10/BL2006041000588.ht
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The White House's longtime rationale for its stonewall on all matters even
vaguely related to the CIA leak investigation -- that it can't comment on
an ongoing legal proceeding -- was never a particularly plausible excuse,
even though it has thus far proved oddly effective at keeping the press and
the public at bay.

But now, with the president's personal conduct very much in question, it
doesn't even come close to hacking it anymore.

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