So apparently president Bush knew about and directed the Valerie Plame leak. Didn't he previously say he wasn't involved? ("If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration.") Or maybe he was just interested in finding out what was going on, knowing that might not happen - hoping that might not happen? Former President Clinton had to get into semantics to attempt to not admit directly fooling around* and the Republicans picked on him mightily for it. I would say that President Bush would be defending himself in the same manner now, but for one big difference - he and his administration don't even bother to defend themselves. They just pretend as if they have done nothing wrong. My guess is that history will not treat them as kindly.

(* Compared to authorizing spying on Americans and now this business with lying about knowledge of the leaking of classified CIA information, what exactly did former President Clinton do wrong?)