[ex-snook]

Any Naval Academy involement?

[ampat]

Headlines like this really make my blood boil. It should read "Top Navy Department Civil Servants tried to....". Countless headlines have implied military wrongdoing when it is usually the civil servants (often from the senior executive service). This is usually the case when security leaks occur. In this case, those involved must have got their positions the easy way (the quickest way to get rid of an incompetent or otherwise undesirable civil servant is to promote them).
Hiding the punishment behind the privacy act is worse than the Senate sealing the record on Toricelli. At least we learned that he received a slap on the wrist.

[Wurlitzer]

"But privacy rules prevent the Navy from saying what the actions were, she said."

You know you have been slipped the weenie when this statement is made. Strange, we know 90% of the story but "privacy rules" prevent us from knowing the outcome.