springing a leak

[victor steinbok]

Here's the first sentence of the story.

> A former NSA executive who is fighting government charges of leaking classified information was part of a group that pursued several sanctioned paths to report concerns about an agency spy program, but was repeatedly frustrated by the government’s inaction, according to a report Wednesday.

I don't think there is any doubt as to object deletion as intent.

    VS-)

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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