The Washington Post has some analysis with regard to the lastest twist of Plamegate.
Legal experts say that President Bush had the unquestionable authority to approve the disclosure of secret CIA information to reporters, but they add that the leak was highly unusual and amounted to using sensitive intelligence data for political gain.
There’s more at the link, but I have some questions.
1) Why did the Bush team still act like the NIE was classified after that disclosure?
2) What is the normal procedure and why was it not followed in declassifying the NIE?
3) Do they expect us to actually believe this was not the use of national security information for political gain?