Lets read this Article from the Microsoft News Network:

WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide told prosecutors President Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq, according to court papers filed by prosecutors in the CIA leak case.

The filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also describes Cheney’s involvement in I. Lewis Libby’s communications with the press.

There was no indication in the filing that either Bush or Cheney authorized Libby to disclose Valerie Plame’s CIA identity. But it points to Cheney as one of the originators of the idea that Plame could be used to discredit her husband, Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson.

Wow, the White House is really in hot water here, aren’t they? Cheney told Libby to out Valerie “Double-0 Nothing” Plame?
But wait… what was “leaked”? MSNBC doesn’t really say.

More Updates: 2:00 PM

Now lets go to the National Journal:

Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been “authorized” by Cheney and other White House “superiors” in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.

Libby specifically claimed that in one instance he had been authorized to divulge portions of a then-still highly classified National Intelligence Estimate regarding Saddam Hussein’s purported efforts to develop nuclear weapons, according to correspondence recently filed in federal court by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald.

Beyond what was stated in the court paper, say people with firsthand knowledge of the matter, Libby also indicated what he will offer as a broad defense during his upcoming criminal trial: that Vice President Cheney and other senior Bush administration officials had earlier encouraged and authorized him to share classified information with journalists to build public support for going to war. Later, after the war began in 2003, Cheney authorized Libby to release additional classified information, including details of the NIE, to defend the administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case for war.

So wait, the “leak” was the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) regarding Saddam’s efforts to develop Nuclear Weapons.
What does this have to do with Super-Agent Valerie Plame?

Answer: Nothing.

Remember, my first analysis of the Plame Kerfuffle, this is where Super Sleuth Joe Wilson comes in. Remember his trip to Niger, to debunk the Bush assertion that Saddam was purchasing Yellow Cake Uranium?
And remember Joe Wilson’s NYTimes Article on the subject (essentially a LEAK!) and a false one at that.

Now, the White House has to respond, so they declassified the National Intelligence Estimate which originally gave Bush the information regarding Saddam and Nukes. Information that is already been uncovered incorrectly by Wilson.

Now, was this White House disclosure a “leak”? Cheney says no, and here’s why: Executive Order 13292
Where, it says this little clause here:

The President may direct the agency head not to exempt the file series or to declassify the information within that series at an earlier date than recommended. File series exemptions previously approved by the President shall remain valid without any additional agency action.

And in this particular executive order, the Vice President is given Executive powers in Classification and DeClassification.

So, is this a “leak”, or is this a “declassification”?

Executive Order 13292 says this is a declassification.
And what does this have to do with Valerie Plame?

And MSNBC isn’t the only network making these “connections”, Here is an Article from AOL News Network, or even FoxNews.

3.4 seconds later, Chuck “The Dagger” Schumer appeared before television cameras. (Cite: The Reuters “News” Agency)

“The president has said he’d fire anyone who leaked this kind of information. But it now seems that he authorised leaks just like this in the first place. The American people deserve the truth,” he told reporters.

Wait Wait wait… Bush leaked it now? I thought it was Cheney. Wait, I thought this was DeClassified. And is he talking about Plame or the NIE?

And I thought that Schumer liked Whistleblowers?

Well, its like the old adage says: One Man’s Whistleblower, is another man’s leaker, is another man’s DeClassified Information.

Update: So are you still confused: Scott Ott of Scrappleface has the following parody wrap-up:

Bush Leak Raises Chain-of-Command Questions
Official Washington is abuzz today about news that Lewis ‘Scooter‘ Libby may have had permission from President George Bush to release previously-classified information about Saddam Hussein’s efforts to buy uranium. According to prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Vice President Dick Cheney sought and received permission from the president to allow Libby to leak part of a top-secret National Intelligence Estimate. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said today that the new evidence is “alarming.” He called for an investigation to “find out exactly when Bush began telling Cheney what to do.”

Update II
Another tongue-in cheek summary by Best of the Web Today:

Quick, Call a Plumber!

In other words, this was an authorized disclosure of information, the opposite of a leak. Yet the Times, the Washington Post and even the New York Sun (albeit only in a headline) call it a “leak.”

These reports have served as pornography for the Angry Left, which has constructed an elaborate fantasy world around the Plame kerfuffle. One reader shared with us his reverie about how this is actually a signal that Fitzgerald plans to indict Vice President Cheney.

In fact, it is nothing more than a battle over procedure. Libby is seeking to compel the prosecution to turn over certain information to the defense; Fitzgerald is resisting. Among the information Fitzgerald has so far refused to turn over, by the way, are the two facts supposedly at the center of the case: whether Valerie Plame was a covert agent (extensive evidence on the public record comes close to proving that she was not), and who “leaked” Plame’s identity to columnist Bob Novak.

More than anything else, the whole kerfuffle is a reflection on the way anti-Bush animus has fed into the adversarial culture of post-Watergate journalism in America. First the New York Times beat the drums for a special prosecutor to investigate who provided accurate information to reporters, albeit supposedly in violation of the law. Among the results: A Times reporter went to jail.

Now we witness the astonishing spectacle of newspapers trying to spin a scandal out of a legal disclosure of information to the press. GayPatriot aptly describes it as “the Orwellian worldview of Bush-haters where releasing facts means having something to hide.” Maybe we can’t expect better from political partisans, but journalists are supposed to stand for the neutral principle of the public’s right to know. If they pervert that principle in the pursuit of a partisan program, they will find it harder to assert it when it serves their purposes, whatever those purposes may be.

Tony Snow also highlighted another peice of ironic hypocrosy here:
The Media is all up in arms over this “leak”; but by the same definition, any White House Press Room announcement is the same thing.
So to plug all the leaks, the White House should revoke all Press Corps passes for David Gregory, Helen Thomas and the rest of the Leaks in the Washington Media…