W's Daddy had this to say...

" I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors."

I wonder how #41 feels about #43 being revealed as the instigator of leaks from the White House? I know that I'm royally pissed-off. That lying sack of fertilizer stood there and told us that he would not tolerate any leaks from the White House, and that whoever did it would "no longer be a part of this administration." Now, it turns out that HE was the leaker. The right is trying to spin this by saying that the President has the authority to de-classify secret materials. Isn't there a procedure that has to be followed in such cases? I'd bet there is, and I'd also bet that it was not followed. The material was still classified when Libby was told to leak it, and the mere act of telling someone to leak it does not absolve the President of following the law concerning release of classified material.

Legal arguments aside, what was done is MORALLY wrong. Secrets were leaked for the express purpose of MARKETING a war in Iraq to the American public. Yeah, Saddam was a bad guy, blah, blah, blah, I've heard all of those arguments before. They don't stand up to the fact that the President stood there and lied to us all in order to get us to go to war. Those are the facts, and the White House does not deny them. Alberto "Torture and wiretaps are OK" Gonzales says that since the President has the ok to de-classify whatever he wants, then no crime was committed.

I don't tolerate lying from my kids, and I won't tolerate lies to advance a bogus agenda from this President, either.