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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Since he was talking to Judy Miller, it was probably WMD-related. From the slightly more detailed AP story on the NYT's website:

• The authorization involving intelligence information came as the Bush administration faced mounting criticism about its failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the main reason the president and his aides had given for going to war.
  
  Libby's participation in a critical conversation with Miller on July 8, 2003 ''occurred only after the vice president advised defendant that the president specifically had authorized defendant to disclose certain information in the National Intelligence Estimate,'' the papers by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald stated. The filing did not specify the ''certain information.''
  
  ''Defendant testified that the circumstances of his conversation with reporter Miller -- getting approval from the president through the vice president to discuss material that would be classified but for that approval -- were unique in his recollection,'' the papers added.

so they leaked "intelligence" at a time when they knew it was wrong. And the harm in leaking intelligence at a time when they knew it was wrong is.............?