Bush leaked to Woodward the warrantless spy program before New York Times

Explain to me this: if the White House is so mad at the New York Times for leaking information that the NSA was secretly wiretapping Americans without a warrant, then shouldn't the White House be even more angry at the President for telling the Pakistani President virtually the same thing two months after September 11th?

You read that right.  In Tuesday's Washington Post, columnist Dan Eggen recalls page 303 of Bob Woodward's book "Bush at War."  Author Bob Woodward described a meeting between George W. Bush and Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf in November of 2001.  Bush was describing to him the new domestic surveillance system.  Here is an excerpt:

"He had become fascinated with the ability of the National SecurityAgency to intercept phone calls and other communications worldwide,"Woodward wrote, referring to Bush. "If they got the key phone calls,future terrorism might be stopped, certainly curtailed. Bush summarizedhis strategy: 'Listen to every phone call and close them down andprotect the innocents.' "

Okay, so we have two conclusions to draw from this.  First, technically it was President Bush who leaked the existence of the program to two sources: Musharraf and Woodward.  The New York Times is not at fault.  Secondly, it also meant that Pervez Musharraf, a violent dictator, knew about this program almost five years before the American people did.  That really reveals the extent of disconnect between this President and average Americans.  If the information was so sensitive that neither you nor I should know about it, and if the information dealt with operations inside this country, then why was he telling foreign leaders?