Wednesday, October 08, 2003

An interesting slip

Josh Marshall yesterday mentioned this comment by President Bush in remarks to reporters:
I mean this town is a -- is a town full of people who like to leak information. And I don't know if we're going to find out the senior administration official.

I thought this was strange, since the original report in the Washington Post cited a "senior administration official" who indicated that there were two "top White House officials" who leaked Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative to the press.

In other words, it's beginning to sound as though the White House is less interested in the identity of the two leakers than it is that "senior administration official" who spilled the beans to the Post.

Or did Bush simply misspeak again?

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