This way they can (retroactively) blame Trump.
Kind of like how Val Plame outed herself, and then the rest.
Kind of like how Val Plame outed herself, etc.
Her identity was common knowledge in the elite DC cocktail party crowd, but that didn't stop a massive witch hunt, a Special Prosecutor, and the persecution, conviction and jailing of Scooter Libby for "process crimes".
Folks might be able to figure it out on their own based on facts that are in the public, but the reason those who know are not talking is Scooter Libby.