NEWSVIEW: Leak-Hating President, As Leaker

NEWSVIEW: the Leak-Hating President As Leaker-In-Chief? a President Better Mean What He Says

By TOM RAUM

WASHINGTON Apr 7, 2006 (AP)— President Bush insists a president "better mean what he says." Those words could return to haunt him.

After long denouncing leaks of all kinds, Bush is confronted with a statement unchallenged by his aides that he authorized a leak of classified material to undermine an Iraq war critic.