A D.C. whodunit: Who leaked and why? -Bob Woodward's scoop on Afghan report raises questions

Politico ^ | 22 September 20009 | BEN SMITH - Politico

[underthestreetlite]

Bob Woodward’s Monday-morning exclusive on a 66-page report from Gen. Stanley McChrystal to President Barack Obama about Afghanistan policy was a rite of passage for the new administration: the first major national security leak and a sure sign that the celebrated Washington Post reporter has penetrated yet another administration.

White House officials greeted the leak with a grimace, but none suggested they’d begin a witch hunt for the leaker. Woodward is famous for his access to the principals themselves — he recently traveled to Afghanistan with National Security Adviser James Jones — and leak hunters couldn’t expect with confidence that they’d find themselves disciplining just an undisciplined junior staffer.

But inside the White House and out, the leak touched off another familiar Washington ritual: speculation about the leaker’s identity and motives.

[underthestreetlite]

Who dunit? - Don't Know - but does it really matter now.

Why? - This is a matter of national security and the nation ought to know

[La Lydia]

Does the person who wrote that live in Washington DC and have ANY CLUE WHATSOEVER the way things work here? And only the village idiot wouldn’t be able to figure out where he got that story. Leaks are the mother’s milk of DC journalism, and Woodward is the biggest consumer thereof in the entire mediasphere.

[Kenton]

I dunno whodunit, but I have my suspicions...

[okie01]

But inside the White House and out, the leak touched off another familiar Washington ritual: speculation about the leaker’s identity and motives.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Does anybody recall any MSM interest (much less, speculation) about a leaker's identity or motives during the Bush administration?

Anyone?

[underthestreetlite]

nice suspicious guess there, i’d say.

not so nice a picture tho!

[Redleg Duke]

Crickets

[Electric Graffiti]

White House officials greeted the leak with a grimace, but none suggested they’d begin a witch hunt for the leaker

It was leaked with the full blessing of the 12th imam himself.

[OldDeckHand]

"I dunno whodunit, but I have my suspicions..."

Hysterical. And, probably right.

[billhilly]

Sidney Blumenthal

[Chode]

and 0bama takes another one in the.................................HA ha!!!

[Leo Carpathian]

Whoo dumitttt?

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 22 September 2009. Also note, that Greenspan story pinged earlier was 2007, I forgot to mention that. [blush] Thanks underthestreetlite.