Sunday, October 26, 2003

Bush the First

At a college "leadership forum":

Bush remained quiet during most of the event, which lasted just over an hour, and interrupted the discussion only once after an audience member asked about the quality of American intelligence.

“ You’ve got to protect your sources,” the former president said. “It’s tough to recruit sources to spy on their own nations if they’re afraid.”

The comments were an apparent reference to criticism that followed the recent leak of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame by a source within the current Bush administration.