Bush authorized leaks on Iraq
President George W. Bush took more heat after indicted former top White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby revealed in court papers that the US leader had authorized intelligence leaks ahead of the war in Iraq. The disclosure came as a federal prosecutor continues to investigate the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent, Valerie Plame, in 2003 after her diplomat husband criticized the Bush administration’s rationale for the war. Libby, who is currently facing charges of obstruction and lying in the investigation, is suspected of having revealed Plame’s job as an undercover CIA agent to a reporter — a federal crime in the United States. Full Story