The Washington Post has broken ranks with the rest of the press over the media fiction that President Bush's recently revealed decision to authorize Lewis "Scooter" Libby to leak prewar Iraq intelligence somehow constitutes a new scandal. In a stunning editorial headlined "The Good Leak," the Post said Sunday: "There was nothing illegal or even particularly unusual about [Bush's decision]; nor is this presidentially authorized leak necessarily comparable to other, unauthorized disclosures that the president believes, rightly or wrongly, compromise national security." Instead, the paper says that, if anyone has behaved unethically in the entire Leakgate fiasco, its Bush's accuser,...