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For those who tuned in late, Mike Allen summarizes:

Bush has no plans to ask his staff members whether they played a role in revealing the name of an undercover officer who is married to former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, one of the most visible critics of Bush's handling of intelligence about Iraq.

Because he doesn't want to know the answer? Or because he already knows?

An administration official told The Washington Post on Saturday that two White House officials leaked the information to selected journalists to discredit Wilson.

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on "Fox News Sunday" that she knew "nothing of any such White House effort to reveal any of this, and it certainly would not be the way that the president would expect his White House to operate."

Condi "Sergeant Schulz" Rice... ("I know nothing! Nothing!")

More specific details about the controversy emerged yesterday. Wilson said in a telephone interview that four reporters from three television networks called him in July and told him that White House officials had contacted them to encourage stories that would include his wife's [Valerie Plame] identity.

So all the Washington insiders already know who the White House officials are. Only we don't know.

The disclosure could have broken more than one law. In addition to the federal law prohibiting the identification of a covert officer, officials with high-level national security clearance sign nondisclosure agreements, with penalties for revealing classified information.

Yep, it's "the rule of law." Remember that one?

An administration official said the leaks were "simply for revenge" for the trouble Wilson had caused Bush.

Thugs.