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Leak Hypocrisy

Iraq war moves squarely into election agenda:
...In his first remarks since parts of an important secret intelligence report were slipped to the media over the weekend, Bush charged that the leaks were politically motivated to undermine Republicans during the upcoming November midterm elections....

Bush said he was so annoyed by the timing of the leaks from the NIE, which had been completed in April, that he had ordered the document declassified.

'Here we are coming down the stretch in an election campaign and it's on the front page of your newspapers,' Bush said. 'Isn't that interesting? Somebody's taken it upon themselves to leak classified information for political purposes.'...

He sure does have a short memory.