They are all very prideful. And Pride leads the list of Deadly Sins. May they dwell in Hell for all eternity.

I have lived and worked inside the beltway and known some leakers at close hand. This kind of leak is generally triggered by one or a combination of the following:

1. Disagreement with a policy and an attempt to divert it by making it public.

2. An attempt to enhance one’s self-importance as the possessor of such important (and limited-distribution) information.

3. A hope to damage one party or politician by painting them in a bad light for backing such a policy.

4. Virtue-signalling on the part of the leaker.

5. Outright malice toward the government.

This leak appears to have been triggered by several of those reasons. The Washington Post under its new owner appears to lean frequently toward #s 1, 3, 4 and 5.

This sort of story, with absolutely no proof offered, is almost the bell ringing the demise of the Russian Collusion story. The Hail Mary toss before resigning to the locker room.