KHHAAANN! Mickey Kaus writes:

More important, note that even these Pakistanis sources, according to Reuters, say that the Bush administration “confirmed” Khan’s name, not that the Bushies are the ones who leaked it in the first place. It seems entirely possible that once Khan’s name was out in Monday’s NYT– and Khan had been moved to a safe house–Bush administration officials felt there was no point in sticking with their refusal to confirm his name. . . .

I’ll be quite willing to condemn the Bushies if in fact they outed Khan–even if it wasn’t intentional, it would at least be grossly negligent, and someone (maybe Bush) would deserve to be fired for it. But the surface evidence from the original source–the Times’ piece–points to a Pakistani official, not a Bush official, as the culprit.

As I said before, we really have no idea what was going on here. But Will Collier isn’t happy.