Its not a circle, its just round

Just to be clear, I don't think this Libby thing will hurt W. The dems just aren't able to capitalize on this type of information. It will hurt him with the libertarians, both of us, but that's about it.

But as I read this article two things come to mind. The White House's defense seems to be, Bush can't leak classified information because only he determines what that is. Sort of like Bush can't lie because if he says something its true. I love the Orwellian circularity of that. So when Bush says leaks are bad, and he doesn't like them, and he will find the leaker in the Plame investigation, well maybe he should call Charlie and O.J.

But my favorite is, "Because of the public debate that was going on and some of the wild accusations that were flying around at the time, we felt it was very much in the public interest that what information could be declassified be declassified, and that's exactly what we did." So in all the record amount of classified information this administration has created, the one, crucial, piece of information that would help eductate the american people, and cut through all the ambiguity as we prepared for war was a spy's name.

Just to recap, the President can decide when its ok to wirelessly tap all calls, even those that are solely domestic (this warrants its own entry), the right to ignore congressional mandates, is not bound by law, and can't disclose harmful secrets because only he can decide what's secret. Sort of sounds like W's not above the law because he is the law. Ahhh, this must be the democracy the founding fathers envisioned.