Why Do All These Classified "How to Stop Leaks" Documents Keep Leaking

Last October, WikiLeaks got a hold of the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense's Defence Manual of Security, a 2,400-page, restricted document designed to help government officials "maintain information security in the face of hackers, journalists, foreign spies, and others." And this morning, the site published a 32-page U.S. counterintelligence investigation, which included plans to "damage and destroy" WikiLeaks' "center of gravity." Why does this keep happening?!

According to U.K. report, information usually leaks via "disaffected members of staff, or as a result of the attentions of an investigative journalist, or simply by accident or carelessness." The U.S. report echoes that sentiment: "The possibility that current employees within DoD or elsewhere...are providing sensitive or classified information to WikiLeaks cannot be ruled out." So, naturally, the solution is to release a document that explicitly talks about how to stop moles. Which, of course, the moles will see, and then leak. Because that's what moles do.