Ex-CIA deputy director: Leak 'has to be an inside job'

Does anyone else find humor in the fact that the name of the reporter who posted the story on the internet is Nikita Vladimirov?

SSG Robert Webster Don't worry, they are from the government and they are here to help you.

Morell has likely been more outspoken before during and after the campaign than he should have been. He was EA to DCI Tenet and before becoming Acting DCI twice - once when Panetta went to SecDef and again when they canned Petraeus - he was DDI for a couple of years. So he's been around the Agency but that doesn't always mean that much. If what he says is true then the mainframe, that is likely air-gapped from anything external, is where this stuff came from. That would mean that unless more than one party was involved <or that one person had access to make keystrokes disappear> there would be a record of whatever download to media or import to another file occurred. So, if it was copied there should be a trail. Another option is this was not even what it seems i.e. intentional to trace or exploit. With these guys you never know, because nothing is ever what it seems, in most cases. Meaning that if they have a few candidates in mind for leaks they let this get out through an intermediary and then watch all of them to see if it gets delivered and by whom. It could even all be bogus info because unless you're on the inside and cleared for it how would you ever be able to prove otherwise? Thanks for sharing.