Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   This will help you Date:   5/23/2017 1:27:02 PM

My casual observation from all the years I spent in DC - it takes about a year for an incoming President to get his team in place.  In addition to the positions that have to be confirmed by Congress (down to the Assistant Secretary level), there are literally thousands of non-confirmation positions that don't get filled until all those that need confirmation are filled.  I suspect that this is being done quietly in most cases without media attention. 

The leaks could be coming from the White House or the NSC.  Not everyone on the NSC (staff level) get replaced with the turn of Administrations.  A lot of leakers are not even political, but harbor a grudge for some other reason.  We had 2 in our organization that consistently leaked information to the Washington Times.  It had nothing to do with politics, but it had everything to do with an old grudge agains the first Director and subsequent managers who failed to recognize their "brilliance" and put them in charge.  There was another one that leaked stuff all the time, because he was unhappy about U.S. policy towards China.  And if they get identified under the government's Whisle Blowers, there isn't anything thing much that you can do about them.  And with smart phones there isn't much of a way to track them.