It’s a D.C. cliche. Staffers try to make policy by manipulating from the inside or the outside. Working the outside means coordinating with activists and friendly media. Everyone in D.C. does it, but there’s a big difference between doing it on behalf of your boss, a senator or a president, and doing it to undermine your boss the way Joe Kent did.
The rest of the story is also a D.C. cliche. The staffer gets frozen out of meetings because he leaks them. He grows resentful. Then he does the career calculus of deciding if he should leave quietly or stomp out loudly.
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