[jettester]

Good way to identify the leakers by departmentalizing and isolating specific knowledge to inside information.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Good way to identify the leakers by departmentalizing and isolating specific knowledge to inside information.

Exactly.

Admiral Nimitz used the same ploy before the Battle of Midway;
"AF has water problems."

[maxsand]

“...So the codebreakers at Station HYPO devised an ingenious experiment to confirm the identity of AF. Pearl Harbor and Midway Island were connected by an underwater cable that was invulnerable to Japanese interception. Station HYPO sent orders to Midway by cable to broadcast a radio message that the island’s desalinization plant had broken down. The radio message was broadcast without encryption to ensure that Japan could read it if it was intercepted.

The radio message was duly intercepted by Japan and reported by a message encoded in JN25 stating that AF’s desalinization plant was out of order. That message was intercepted by Station HYPO. AF was thus confirmed as Midway.”

[pgkdan]

Good way to identify the leakers by departmentalizing and isolating specific knowledge to inside information.

I've got a sneaking suspicion that's what this was all about.

[ConservativeMind]

Most definitely.

[CivilWarBrewing]

"Good way to identify the leakers by departmentalizing and isolating specific knowledge to inside information."

That's probably exactly what happened here.

[Brandonmark]

...staffers in several different offices reported discussions were underway,

"Loose lips sink ships"

[gr8eman]

My thought exactly. More to come...