It wasn't so much a leak as someone putting two and two together and the cat getting out of the bag. Anyway, this is a nonsense argument in the context of the

It wasn't so much a leak as someone putting two and two together and the cat getting out of the bag. Anyway, this is a nonsense argument in the context of the thread. They tried to keep things quiet by limiting the size of the circle, among other things. Their attempts at secrecy did not entirely succeed, although they made it 90% of the way to the embargo date without things coming out. Their inability to make it 100% of the way does not inform us at all about whether they should indeed have limited the circle of those who knew.