springing a leak

[Dan Goncharoff]

Yet the first sentence of the article shows both 1) and 2) are wrong.

DanG

On 7/15/2010 12:10 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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> And I decided after a couple of readings of the headline alone that either
>   a) he was *fired*, and Wired was making a bad joke by using "leaked" for an
> NSA official,
>   b) or his *identity* was leaked to the media
> It never even occurred to me to read this as a transitive verb with the
> object ungrammatically deleted.
>
> m a m
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> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Victor Steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>   Here's a strange headline.
>>
>> http://bit.ly/cIuM0f
>> NSA Executive Leaked After Official Reporting Process Failed Him |
>> Threat Level | Wired.com
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>> Normally, it wouldn't be necessary to assume that it was classified
>> information (or documents) that was leaked by an official, but, in this
>> headline, the object is missing completely. So it sounds like the
>> "Executive" may have sprung a leak.
>>
>>      VS-)
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