Washington Post
White House counselor
Dan Bartlett says of the
Hadley memo appearing in the Times: "I haven't seen a more egregious leak in my time in government, timed to influence a very important meeting with a head of state."
Howard Kurtz writes: "While many leakers do their thing for policy reasons, they may also act out of pettiness, revenge or the ego trip of manipulating the media. Since the Times offered no clues about the sources' motivation, we can only speculate."
