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Josh Marshall notes that George W. Bush said the following yesterday in Chicago:

Leaks of classified information are bad things, and we've had too many lately in Washington. We've had leaks from the executive branch and leaks from the legislative branch. I want to know who the leakers are.

In case you've forgotten, here's what George H. W. Bush said four years ago:

Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, 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.

It sounds to me as if W heard the "tranquil" part and missed the part about "contempt and anger." Revealing the name of a covert CIA operative isn't a "leak". It's a criminal, and possibly traitorous, act.

I have no way of knowing who in the White House might have called six reporters to reveal that Ambassador Wilson's wife was (emphasis on "was") a covert CIA operative. I have no way of knowing whether the motive was, as Ambassador Wilson believes, to intimidate others who might question the administration's intelligence sources on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I don't even know if Ambassador Wilson's wife really was involved in covert operations for the CIA, although the CIA's reaction is certainly consistent with that hypothesis.

I do know that a President who genuinely cared about national security would be outraged by the suggestion that someone in his administration might have done such a thing. A President who genuinely cared about national security wouldn't have waited for the CIA to request a formal Justice Department investigation. A President who genuinely cared about national security would have torn down the walls in July when Novak's column first appeared.

Something tells me that the 41st President of the United States would have responded with anger. 43 seems to be just another example of how sons often fail to live up to their fathers.