[conservative in nyc]

I think the main question is who had access to this letter?

The actual letter is here. John Negroponte, Josh Bolton and Steven Hadley were copied on the letter. I doubt anyone in the Bolton or Hadley camps would have leaked the letter. Somebody in the intelligence community with ties to Negroponte's office - possible.

It's also possible that the letter was released as part of a FOIA request to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence by the New York Times. I'm not sure whether the office would have released the letter, though, and the New York Times makes no mention of making such a request.

[gondramB]

>>The actual letter is here. John Negroponte, Josh Bolton and Steven Hadley were copied on the letter. I doubt anyone in the Bolton or Hadley camps would have leaked the letter. Somebody in the intelligence community with ties to Negroponte's office - possible.<<

I don't know... Negroponte was one of the guys helping the contras he doesn't seem like the leaking of covert ops kind of guy.

But I guess anybody can have a bad staffer.

[patj]

It's also possible that the letter was released as part of a FOIA request to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

That's pretty fast action if it was FOIA. The letter is dated May 18th, I assume this year since not stated otherwise.