“It is illegal to leak information. That’s what you sign up to when you join an intelligence service,” former acting CIA Director John McLaughlin said.
— CIA agent fired for ‘pattern of behavior’

A new wave of controversy over leaking began last week when prosecutors released court documents in which a former aide to Dick Cheney testified that the vice president told him in 2003 that President Bush approved the release of information in a classified intelligence report.
— Specter: White House needs to explain leak

Bush said he had authorized the release of the documents because some Americans questioned his reasons for going to war.
— Bush acknowledges declassifying intelligence

Former President Richard Nixon: “Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.”
— Nixon’s Views on Presidential Power: Excerpts from an Interview with David Frost