Leaks must only be good when they come from the White House

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NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/washington/27prexy.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1151380800&en=7584f805b3c044f9&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

Bush Says Report on Bank Data Was Disgraceful

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: June 27, 2006

WASHINGTON, June 26 — President Bush on Monday condemned as "disgraceful" the disclosure last week by The New York Times and other newspapers of a secret program to investigate and track terrorists that relies on a vast international database that includes Americans' banking transactions.

The remarks were the first in public by Mr. Bush on the issue, and they came as the administration intensified its attacks on newspapers' handling of it. In a speech in Nebraska on Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney repeatedly criticized The Times by name, while Treasury Secretary John W. Snow dismissed as "incorrect and offensive" the rationale offered by the newspaper's executive editor for the decision to publish.

"Congress was briefed," Mr. Bush said. "And what we did was fully authorized under the law. And the disclosure of this program is disgraceful. We're at war with a bunch of people who want to hurt the United States of America, and for people to leak that program, and for a newspaper to publish it, does great harm to the United States of America."

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1. Bush is a "disgrace" of a President.

He has forever lowered the standard needed to be President.

[dajoki]

2. He lowered the standard of...

used car salesmen.(no offense to used car salesmen intended).

[Maccagirl]

3. I shudder to think of the horrible mess

the next president will have to clean up. He/She had better be super-human, and I just don't see it.