I was only following orders! AP:

A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration’s WHIG disinformation campaign defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers.

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in documents filed last month that he plans to introduce evidence that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s former chief of staff, disclosed to reporters the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate in the summer of 2003.

After all, Dick Cheney’s pasty white ass national security was at stake!

NOTE firedoglake tells us that Scooter has hired Ollie North’s lawyer. Nothing ever changes, does it?