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He said Friday that the information is "classified for a reason" and that "these are criminal acts when they release information like this." Then he insisted accusations that his team was guilty are "offensive."

Right, and Bill Clinton never had sex with that woman. All that was missing from Obama's unconvincing denial was the angry finger-wagging.

Attorney General Eric Holder later named two prosecutors to lead investigations, but did not make them independent from his oversight. That smells like a fix. With Obama already declaring the White House innocent, whom will the gumshoes investigate? George W. Bush? Martians?

Besides, as Pete King, the GOP chairman of the House homeland security panel, notes, the leaks fit a pattern. Always, they serve one purpose: to make Obama look tough on terror.

"You have chapter and verse of these programs," King told me. "It has to come from the top."

The case is not an open-ended whodunit. The motives are obvious and the potential suspects well known.

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