Today, in a commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy, Bush revealed classified intelligence about a 2005 order from Osama bin Laden instructing aides to form a terrorist cell that would conduct attacks outside Iraq and that the United States should be the top target.
It makes me wonder how it fits with what he has said in the past:
"We can't have leaks of classified information. We're now in extraordinary times . . . and yet I see in the media that somebody feels that they should be able to talk about classified information. And that's just wrong."
"My administration will not talk about how we gather intelligence, if we gather intelligence, and what the intelligence says."
"... classified information must be held dear, that there's a responsibility, that if you receive a briefing of classified information, you have a responsibility.
I guess its only ok when it suits a political purpose....an attempt to further justify and defend a failed policy in Iraq.
Wouldnt a moral, truthful leader also declassify the intel that determined that the rise of al Queda in Iraq was a result of our invasion or the assessment that al Queda in Iraq only represents a very small percentage of the violence in Iraq and has little capability to expand it to the US?