can you make heads or tails out of this?

The NYT reefers the White House—via an SAO—confirming that President Bush did indeed order a leak-cum-declassification of (what turned out to be cherry-picked) prewar intel about Iraq. The SAO's spin, which the Times identifies as such, is that it's not Bush's fault: He didn't specifically tell anybody to contact reporters. What the NYT doesn't do is include the somewhat buried zinger that was in yesterday's Times and the Post—and, days before that, first picked at by a blog: Scooter Libby, at the direction of VP Cheney, quietly told reporters that one "key judgment" in the main classified intel report on Iraq was that Saddam was seeking uranium. Except that wasn't true: There was no such "key judgment" in the report.