[skimask]

Everyone here knows that where they work there are people you can tell something to and they will keep quiet and others who will spread it around the moment they cant see you. What I do is this, if I think someone cant be trusted I'll give them some phony, but totally believable, information. Then I wait to see if it gets out. If it does I got him/her. Why couldn't the Bush Administration do the same thing?

[smoothsailing]

I think in the psyops business that's called a honeytrap.

And when you think about it, who's to say that the administration hasn't already done that?

[Cboldt]

... if I think someone cant be trusted I'll give them some phony, but totally believable, information. Then I wait to see if it gets out. If it does I got him/her. Why couldn't the Bush Administration do the same thing?

At some level, they do. But not by giving phony information, that would compromise "trust" in the wrong direction, where the administration itself would be (correctly) seen as a liar. The solution for the administration is to give up information that is TRUE, gambling that it will or will not be leaked.