Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak
Scandal
Near the end of a round table discussion on ABC’s This Week, George
Stephanopoulos dropped this bomb:

''Definitely a political problem but I wonder, George Will, do you
think it’s a manageable one for the White House especially if we don’t
know whether Fitzgerald is going to write a report or have indictments
but if he is able to show as a source close to this told me this week,
that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved
in some of these discussions.''

This would explain why Bush spent more than an hour answering
questions from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. It would also
fundamentally change the dynamics of the scandal. President Bush could
no longer claim he was merely a bystander who wants to “get to the
bottom of it.” As Stephanopoulos notes, if Bush played a direct role
it could make this scandal completely unmanageable.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/02/...ctly-involved/