It depends on what the meaning of "is" is
The question is, how did the preznit respond when Fitzgerald asked him "did you leak, or authorize the leak of Ms. Plame's name to the press?"
Bush insists a president "better mean what he says." Those words could return to haunt him.
After long denouncing leaks of all kinds, Bush is confronted with a statement — unchallenged by his aides — that he authorized a leak of classified material to undermine an Iraq war critic.
The allegation in the CIA leak case threatens the credibility of a president already falling in the polls, and it gives Democrats fresh material to accuse him of hypocrisy.
The White House scrambled to assert the president's right to selectively declassify information, with [WH spokes-tool Scott] McClellan insisting there's a difference between leaks that can compromise national security and a president's decision to declassify information "when it is in the public interest."
Democrats who fail to recognize that distinction are "engaging in crass politics," he suggested.
John Podesta, a former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, said, "Scott McClellan's credibility isn't just in tatters. It is more like confetti."
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi responded, "The president owes the American people the truth about his manipulation of sensitive intelligence for political purposes."
After long denouncing leaks of all kinds, Bush is confronted with a statement — unchallenged by his aides — that he authorized a leak of classified material to undermine an Iraq war critic.
The allegation in the CIA leak case threatens the credibility of a president already falling in the polls, and it gives Democrats fresh material to accuse him of hypocrisy.
The White House scrambled to assert the president's right to selectively declassify information, with [WH spokes-tool Scott] McClellan insisting there's a difference between leaks that can compromise national security and a president's decision to declassify information "when it is in the public interest."
Democrats who fail to recognize that distinction are "engaging in crass politics," he suggested.
John Podesta, a former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, said, "Scott McClellan's credibility isn't just in tatters. It is more like confetti."
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi responded, "The president owes the American people the truth about his manipulation of sensitive intelligence for political purposes."
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