That should make you wonder about the Pentagon Papers, and if it wasn't just one federal agency shitting on another one; kind of like how the FBI and CIA have their own internal rivalry. Makes you wonder if the entire scandal was just the State Department attempting to damage the influence of the DOD.
It appears since they can't stop the information from being propagated, they intend to manage it. It's them looking for how they can do PR for the White House once a leak has sprung.
Notably this embraces being not the leaker but part of the plug.
That should make you wonder about the Pentagon Papers, and if it wasn't just one federal agency shitting on another one; kind of like how the FBI and CIA have their own internal rivalry. Makes you wonder if the entire scandal was just the State Department attempting to damage the influence of the DOD.
So, the mainstream media no longer worries if a story is true, merely about it's "provenance".
So they're a press office for the administration, then?
It appears since they can't stop the information from being propagated, they intend to manage it. It's them looking for how they can do PR for the White House once a leak has sprung.
Notably this embraces being not the leaker but part of the plug.