Has anyone noticed an uproar over the leak of information from the new National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism? I haven’t, either. The New York Times revealed parts of the NIE in a front-page story yesterday, reporting, “More than a dozen United States government officials and outside experts were interviewed for this article, and all spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were discussing a classified intelligence document.”

Were they authorized to do so? Most likely not, but even if they were, it wouldn’t matter. Just flash back to April, when it was revealed, through the Fitzgerald investigation, that Lewis Libby had been authorized to reveal parts of a then-secret NIE on Iraq. The administration’s opponents were outraged — among them, the Times editorial page, which, in an editorial entitled “A Bad Leak,” said:

Since Mr. Bush regularly denounces leakers, the White House has made much of the notion that he did not leak classified information, he declassified it. This explanation strains credulity. Even a president cannot wave a wand and announce that an intelligence report is declassified.

Now, it appears no one even waved a wand over this new NIE leak. As they say, where’s the outrage?