We learn from the New York Times:

But that fact has not muted the fury of Mr. Bush, his top aides and many members of Congress at the decision last week by The New York Times and other newspapers to disclose a centerpiece of that hunt: the Treasury Department’s search for clues in a vast database of financial transactions maintained by a Belgium-based banking consortium known as Swift.

Mr. Bush received a prolonged, standing ovation from the Republican crowd when he added, “There can be no excuse for anyone entrusted with vital intelligence to leak it — and no excuse for any newspaper to print it.”

Exceptions must be made, however, for presidents, vice-presidents, Karl Roves and all persons nicknamed “Scooter” who reveal to the press the identity of undercover CIA agents msrried to ambassadors guilty of lèse majesté in the first degree.

And while we’re at it, couldn’t the Great Pretender have spared a few kind words for the many newspapers which refused, on grounds of patriotism, principle, and simple decency to out Valerie Plame in their pages?

Bush’s leakers had to work all the way down their list of journalists to Robert Novak before finding a viper vicious enough to print their smear. And just in time, too. Below him lay coiled only Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and Jeff Gannon.