[Just mythoughts]

How do I even know that the leak is true?

This is not the kind of leak that President Bush would want, so easily used against him, in being dishonest, empire building, far more easily to attribute negativity to what is already claimed that Bush is.

If the NSA is doing this, not the kind of thing one would want splashed on the front of newspapers.

Better leak would be actual information gained by the bugging not that the bugging was being done.

[VRWC_minion]

Tge article states: and circulated to both senior agents in his organisation and to a friendly foreign intelligence agency asking for its input.

A senior NSA guy isn't going to be sharing top secret memos with other nations unless he has approval and approval wouldn't come unless someone thought through the repercussions of disclosure to others.

These folks are not dumb.