Bush admits administration leaked CIA name...

For the first time, President Bush admitted that someone in his administration likely leaked Valerie Plame/Wilson's name. Yet, he claims that the case has run its course and he hopes that everyone can now move forward.

As he said and I quote, "I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person. I've often thought about what would have happened if that person had come forth and said, 'I did it.' Would we have had this endless hours of investigation and a lot of money being spent on this matter? But, so, it's been a tough issue for a lot of people in the White House. It's run its course and now we're going to move on."

In recent weeks, President Bush has commuted Scooter Libby's 30-month prison sentence and hasn't ruled out a complete pardon on the matter.

So, what can we conclude? Bush has admitted that it's likely someone in his administration is guilty of leaking the CIA name, commuted Libby's jail time, and has not ruled out a full pardon of Scooter Libby. It seems to me that Scooter may have been the cover-up, the scapegoat for a larger fish in the Bush administration, either Karl Rove or Dick Cheney. This is what I thought at the get-go, and with Bush's words and actions in recent weeks, I'm even more convinced of that.