Washington ? Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Sunday added his name to the list of senior Bush administration officials who say they were not the source who told Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward that administration critic Joseph Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA.

Rumsfeld said he never spoke to Woodward about either Wilson or Wilson’s wife, CIA officer Valerie Plame. The Pentagon chief did say that, at the direction of President Bush, he did speak to Woodward while the reporter was working on book projects.

Woodward says that in June 2003, a highly placed administration official told him of Plame’s CIA connection.

“This is quite amusing,” Rumsfeld said. “I was asked to speak with Mr. Woodward about a couple of books he’s written, and I declined, and finally I was told by the White House, the president, that he thought I should meet with him. So I did. But I did it on the basis that there would be a transcript and it would be public,” Rumsfeld told “Fox News Sunday.”