President Bush authorised the leak of secret intelligence to the New York Times to help defend the war in Iraq, a former top White House aide has said.

The claim comes from Lewis Libby, the former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney.

Mr Libby is facing trial for allegedly obstructing an investigation into a different leak. ~BBC News

Will the myriad witless pundits who wanted to prosecute the leaker for revealing state secrets regarding domestic surveillance be out for Mr. Bush’s blood now that he has colluded with them in “endangering national security”? Yeah, I didn’t think so. After all, he was leaking secret information to help start a war, which is perfectly acceptable.