[AndyJackson]

Knowledgeable insiders have long characterized Powell’s meteoric rise from colonel to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as based on exceptional skills at bureaucratic infighting and deft wielding of the press leak stiletto.

Hate to burst your bubble, but people at the top in DC all excel at this. If they didn't they wouldn't survive.

[Howlin]

You're not busting my bubble; he's just quit an accomplished leaker and backbiter, which, needless to say, the press never reports.

He's not quite as "clean" as he or the MSM protrays himself/him.