WaPo: "A good leak...?" Oh, c'mon... Gimme a break...

i had no sooner posted about being mollified somewhat by today's wapo front page story on the cheney/libby/fitzgerald flap (see below) after yesterday's outrage, then i read this pandering editorial...

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.

honest-to-god... do fred hiatt and the wapo editorial staff really believe that bush was trying to make clear why he "believed that Saddam Hussein was seeking nuclear weapons...?" bush and his war-slavering cronies knew GODDAM WELL that the niger story was bogus, they were already dead-set on invading iraq, and they were both enraged and terrified that their deceit was going to be exposed...

C'MON, WAPO, ENOUGH OF THE B.S. ALREADY...!

[UPDATE]

take a clue from the nyt...

President Bush's apparent order authorizing a senior White House official to reveal to a reporter previously classified intelligence about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain uranium came as the information was already being discredited by several other officials in the administration, interviews and documents from the time show.

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