Quote of note:

One only wonders what the public should know that it doesn't know yet.

Why the White House leaks?
By Daniel Schorr

WASHINGTON - On Monday, The New York Times and CBS News reported that 380 tons of high-grade explosives were missing from a munitions dump near Baghdad. Two days later, The Wall Street Journal editorial page expressed dark suspicion about why the loss of the explosives should come to light barely a week before the election. One might also express suspicion about why the missing explosives should have been kept secret.

The administration obviously has reason to keep bad news under wraps in this tense preelection period. Some bad news it can't do anything about, like higher fuel prices and lower stock prices. But it can hold its own secrets close to its chest; until, that is, someone inside is motivated to blow the whistle.