"Gus" wrote

Information gets declassified all the time
and released to the public but it isn't called a "leak".
Could it be that the leak label is used to make
a normal occurrence sound sinister?


If you call a press conference and announce a previously secret bit of
information, then you have "declassified and released to the public". If
you tell the same thing to a hand-picked reporter "on background", that's a
"leak".

Could it be that the Bushies chose to leak, rather than announce, because
they were trying to get away with something?

-- TP