There have been so many leaks in this case it’s just appalling. But leaking the entire investigative report to Vanity Fair and the Washington Post is off the charts.
The leaker could have been an anti-Rumsfeld DoD official, a Murtha-minion in NCIS, or any number of Wasington weasels who put their own self ahead of their country.
Who ever it was, he had to be high enough up the food chain that no one could touch him.
There is no way a 40,000 page confidential NCIS report AND the Bargewell report were stuffed in someones socks and secreted themselves out with nobody noticing.
There was an investigation many months ago, and it obviously hit a wall. Seeing how Secretary Winter is so possesed with the media having instant access, there's no way he would have let the investigation drop -> unless it led straight to him.
He is the top of the food chain, and the only one who could get away with ordering those documents leaked to the press with no fear of recrimination.
I don't think it is plausible that it could be anyone else anymore. With 60 NCIS agents scouring the globe just to find pictures of dead insurgents, just think how fast Winter could have found out who leaked. Murtha was right on one statement, he got his information straight from the top - the newly minted Secretary of the Navy.