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From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

The Bush administration is mired in what can only be called a very bad news cycle.

A huge development in the CIA League case today, as President Bush is now reported to be a central figure in the investigation. Did the White House practice the opposite of what it preached? The information stopped short of

saying whether the president authorized exposing the name of CIA operative Valerie Plain.

Leaker in chief, was it President Bush himself who authorized leaking government secrets for

political purposes.

This particular cycle was set in motion by the investigation of who within the administration leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has charged

Scooter Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, with lying, not leaking. But now, Libby's testimony has ripped

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