> There needs to be a canary trap set for these leakers. <
If Waltz really did what is claimed here, then the leaker is perhaps more like a whistleblower. After all, this is a national security issue.
(And yes, I know Democrats have done much, much worse.)
Yes, thought about that - but jumping from everything is groovy to going to the press is awfully abrupt. All sorts of ways to jump a chain of command to get word "upstairs" that something needs to be addressed. There hasn't been enough time for those routes to be exhausted before going outside the organization.
Hence, I lean more towards a held-over staffer - although why there are ANY of those is as much a problem as the deed itself..