That's a good story. It reminds me of another, probably apocryphal story told of George W. Bush. It seems he was sitting in the oval office one day shortly after Joe Wilson's article appearaed on the op-ed page of the New York Times.

Cheney said a good way to punish Wilson for exposing the administration's lie was to out his wife as a CIA agent and destroy her career.

A Presidential aide said "But Mr. President, if you authorized the leak, it would be wrong. It would amount to treason."

Bush chuckled "So what? There isn't jack shit they can do to me."