Bush ordered outing of Plame

Kevin Drum has this note from Dick Cheney to Scott McClellan up at his site. In it Cheney is asking McClellan to tell the press that Libby didn't have anything to do with outing Plame, just as he had told them Karl Rove had nothing to do with it.

It reads "Call out to key press saying the same thing about Scooter as Karl." Then, it appears that Cheney intended to write, "Not going to protect on staffer and sacrifice the guy this president asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder because of the incompetence of others." Instead, he thought twice about it and scratched out the "this president" and wrote "... that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder ..." instead.

That makes it pretty clear that it was Bush that told Scooter to out Plame.