OK – so now they’re arguing about whether it was really a “leak” if the president ordered that classified information be released. Their spokesman said:
Because of the public debate that was going on and some of the wild accusations that were flying around at the time, we felt it was very much in the public interest that what information could be declassified and that’s exactly what we did.
This is the same administration that regularly describes how America is “leading the war on terror” and says “we are at war” when they need to weasle out of a difficult question on domestic policy, but still holds hundreds of “illegal combatants” prisoner, and denies that they are “prisoners of war”.
Did you expect any kind of cogent or even coherent argument?