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To: John Carragher who wrote (163134)	4/8/2006 11:45:24 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793696

however if bush tells reporter his wife has bunion then it is fact..not a leak. "Facts" and "leaks" are, again, two different concepts. Whether some information is a fact is a function of it being true or actual. Whether something is a leak is a function of whether it is disseminated via approved protocols. You can leak something that is a fact, like the existence of a bunion, or something that's a lie, perhaps for purposes of disinformation. As for your reframing my example, you've substituted "Bush" for "someone." Leaking is about telling tales out of school. The implication is that leaks come from underlings, even when orchestrated. If Libby shares information with a reporter prior to its official release, it's a "leak." I point this out because much has been made of the sloppy conflation by the opposition between leaking information and revealing state secrets and between leaking this particular information and outing Plame. The defense, however, does the same thing when it claims this is not a leak. It may not be a leak of classified information or Plame's identity but it's still a leak.