Reply #71: Maybe you're reading it a little too literally

[Eloriel]

If he didn't have to bone up for Congressional hearings, sit with his boss who can't read once each day, run an agency under fire, fend off criticisms from all directions, he'd have a lot more time -- and the freedom -- to leak stuff to the press and coordinate leaks and such to the press and whatever else can be done to further the cause.

I don't know that I'm right. I did say it was a bit of wishful thinking, tho bouyed up a bit by the fact that he IS very loyal to the CIA, the CIA HAS done a lot of strategic leaking, and it's been well-publicized here a number of different times (including tonight via a report on Anna Quinlan's appearance on Nightline): don't fuck with the CIA.

And we ALL know the CIA has been seriously fucked with.

I will also point out that it's been my experience that people rarely do things for JUST one reason. I never do. I may have a main reason, but I can't think of a single instance of a major decision which didn't have a whole lotta supporting reasons. People get fed up with their jobs -- the management or the boringness or whatever -- and then they think to themselves, "Yeah, and they don't pay me very well, either." Voila! A decision gets made about changing.

In any case, I reallly have NO doubt that his purported reason is also true. It's possible it's the ONLY reason, but I think human nature supports the idea that there are probably other reasons as well. I hope my little anti-Bush Admin conspiracy theory is among them.