Stop: Or I'll say stop again! No really, no more leaking. Ever. Er, ever again.

Samizdata has the scoop on the administration's new no-leaking policy. It's short, so I'll clip it.

The Bush administration recently has been pummeled by a quasi-scandal involving the leak of the name of a purported CIA "covert operative." I won't go into any details here, as I don't think there is any "there" there. One of the responses of the Bushies was to crack down on leakers in the administration.

This new anti-leaking policy was, of course, promptly, well, leaked.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Bush told his senior aides Tuesday that he 'didn't want to see any stories' quoting unnamed administration officials in the media anymore, and that if he did, there would be consequences, said a senior administration official who asked that his name not be used."

Heh, heh. Unnamed sources in D.C. are as common as the politicos themselves. The game of figuring out which leaks are intentional and which are sneaky is recreation. It's not going to stop anytime soon.

Or so I've been told by a high ranking administration official.