# No comment. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 17, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035 "2003-10-17T15:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/1 "2003-10-17T15:53:45Z")
[ > [@](#): > > ]([http://www.freep.com/news/nw/leak16\_20031016.htm](http://www.freep.com/news/nw/leak16_20031016.htm))_bolding mine:_ > On Tuesday, Bush told his senior aides that he didn’t want to see any stories quoting unnamed administration officials in the news media, and if he did, there would be consequences, **a senior administration official who asked that his name not be used** told the Free Press Washington bureau. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/2 "2003-10-17T15:55:11Z")
Hahahahah. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/3 "2003-10-17T15:57:52Z")
Detroit Free Press. _Please_ tell me that’s something like The Onion. Please? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/4 "2003-10-17T15:59:43Z")
Hey, how did you make the “quote” thing a link? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/5 "2003-10-17T16:07:53Z")
[u rl=“[http://www.freep.com/news/nw/leak16\_20031016.htm](http://www.freep.com/news/nw/leak16_20031016.htm)”][q uote][/u rl]_bolding mine:_ On … bureau. [/qu ote] Codes butchered, of course. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/6 "2003-10-17T16:11:27Z")
[ > [@](#): > > ]([http://www.friedo.com/](http://www.friedo.com/))La dee dah de dah. This is really an activity for ATMB. And this code involved overlapping tags. How _outrageoous!_ ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/7 "2003-10-17T16:11:46Z")
Nope, **Coldie**. Here’s another from the [San Jose Mercury News](http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7023390.htm). ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/8 "2003-10-17T16:20:50Z")
“That’s right, people, no more leaks, starting…wait for it, wait for it…any moment now…Karl, give me the goddamn signal!” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/9 "2003-10-17T16:43:51Z")
That **is** good. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/10 "2003-10-17T19:55:45Z")
I have to wonder if the unamed source leaked that just because Bush told him not to. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/11 "2003-10-17T20:15:55Z")
Oh, I don’t have to wonder: I feel pretty certain that the source was explicitly instructed to leak it so that everyone would know that W’s takin’ names. That’s what makes it so funny: that it’s probably a Keystone-Coppy “smokescreen” for the likelihood that the leaks to date have been orchestrated and ordered by the White House, but now they have to “appear” to be addressing that issue, so they arrange a leak to that effect. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/12 "2003-10-17T21:10:23Z")
I think you give them too much credit. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-comment/208035/13 "2003-10-17T21:31:47Z")
Well, it’s certainly true that orchestrating leaks is the White House’s primary method of feeding the media, so I tend to think they’re just exactly as in control of the process as they want to be.