In a possible effort to sabotage the President’s meeting in Amman with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, someone at the White House — “[a]n Administration official” — has leaked a classified memorandum written by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley to the President and the New York Times has seen fit to publish it.

In their story accompanying the memo, the Times decides:

The memo suggests that if Mr. Maliki fails to carry out a series of specified steps, it may ultimately be necessary to press him to reconfigure his parliamentary bloc, a step the United States could support by providing “monetary support to moderate groups,” and by sending thousands of additional American troops to Baghdad to make up for what the document suggests is a current shortage of Iraqi forces.

All the while, Tony Snow is expressing the Administrations support for Maliki, something crucial to the success of the President’s meeting with Maliki on Wednesday and to the success of the government in Iraq and the ultimate success of the U.S. effort their.

Someone in the Bush Administration has teamed with the New York Times to undermine U.S. policy. Again.