Via Wonkette, here’s an ex-Bush administration official speaking in late 2004 with The Nation’s David Corn:

“[Ari Fleischer] testified before the [Valerie Plame] grand jury for six hours. Afterward someone asked me if I thought he could get through all that without saying something untrue. Ari talk for six hours without saying something untrue? That’s not possible.“

I’d amend that to “misleading” since part of Fleischer’s genius is to say things that aren’t exactly untrue but leave a false impression. Still, it’s amusing, and it gets at a real question: was Fleischer was able to restrain himself after befuddling the White House press corps with disinformation for more than two years? The legal system plays by a whole different set of rules. There are already suggestions that he may be in trouble; we’ll see.

For more on the greatest spinner to ever hold forth from the White House podium, see Spinsanity’s posts on him, including our Fleischer retrospective; the many Fleischer references in All the President’s Spin; and Jonathan Chait’s 2002 Fleischer takedown in The New Republic.