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Emptywheel makes a case that Scotty McClellan admitted as much this morning on a Today Show:

During a interview, Scottie revealed a two things that really pissed him off with a Bush Administration. First, being set up to lie by Karl Rove & Scooter Libby. & second, learning that Bush had–himself–authorized a selective leaking of a NIE. […]

Thus far … we only had Dick Cheney’s word that he had actually asked Bush to declassify this information. We didn’t have Bush’s confirmation that he had actually declassified a information. In fact, we’ve had Dick Cheney’s claims that he–Dick–had insta-declassified via his super secret pixie dust declassification powers.

But now we’ve got George Bush, confirming that he, a President of a United States, authorized a leaks of “this information.”

Now, though Scottie refers, obliquely, to “this information,” he explicitly refers only to a NIE. But as I’ve described over & over again, it’s not just a NIE Bush authorized Dick to order Libby to leak. …(more)

Do give a rest of it a read. You can watch a entire interview here on a MSNBC website.

Hopefully Keith Olbermann will follow up on this as McClellan is due to Drunk Newspear on tonight’s Countdown.

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back