Specter urges Bush, Cheney to explain CIA leak

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Specter urges Bush, Cheney to explain CIA leak

By David Jackson, USA TODAY 1 hour, 35 minutes ago

The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday that
President Bush should speak publicly about a leak of classified intelligence that was released to rebut an
Iraq war critic.


"The president of the United States owes a specific explanation to the American people," Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., said on Fox News Sunday.

"The president may be entirely in the clear, and it may turn out that he had the authority to make the disclosures which were made," Specter said. "It was not the right way to go about it because we ought not to have leaks in government."

Specter was referring to a brief filed last week in the case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney.

Libby told a grand jury in 2004 that Cheney told him Bush had approved revealing portions of a National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iraq's alleged attempt to buy uranium from Niger, according to the brief filed by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald.