Scotty accusing Harry Reid of "crass politics"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/07/whitehouse.leak/

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Reid said Bush "must tell the American people whether President Bush's Oval Office is a place where the buck stops or the leaks start."

But McClellan, in a contentious briefing with reporters, went on a counterattack against Reid, accusing him of "crass politics."

McClellan said Reid "is trying to twist" the story into something that it's not.

Bush has lambasted the leak of Plame's identity, and even more severely has blasted the leak of the existence of a secret wiretapping program under which the government has listened in on calls between people in the United States and suspected terrorists overseas -- without obtaining a warrant to do so.

"There is a difference between providing declassified information to the public when it's in the public interest and leaking classified information that involved sensitive national intelligence regarding our security," McClellan said.