Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:28:20 PM
From opinionjournal.com. Do you think the
leaks were politically motivated?
In announcing the declassification, according to
another Times report the president implied that
the leaks were politically motivated:
President Bush was clearly unhappy that findings from the
National Intelligence Estimate had made their way
into news reports. Noting that evidence-gathering for
the assessment had been concluded in February, and that
the report itself had been finished two months later,
Mr. Bush said: "Here we are, coming down the homestretch
of an election campaign and it's on the front page of
your newspapers. Isn't that interesting?"