Between what Stephen Hayes (Weekly Standard) put out and what ABC has, obviously the administration has a big-time leaker who is A) doing a lot of talking, and B) has access to large piles of documents....
....Petreaus? ....Panetta?
I would imagine there were thirty to fifty people involved in rewriting the episode and could watch the unclassified emails go back and forth.
It’s an interesting thing to go back twenty years ago before email came along, and everything was done over a phone or verbally in a room. Never any records. Now people sit miles and states apart...laying out evidence for anyone who gets screwed over later.
There’s more than one leaker...my humble opinion. At least two or three.
If you ask me....the White House will hunker down, go into a concrete ‘lame-duck’ status, and just try to ride on to 2016. You can forget about any joint effort to achieve anything via Congress. The 2014 election geared to be status quo, no real changes. I think you’d have to go back to the 1840s to find an administration with such a limited achievement record.