Alternatively, the guy in charge of releasing things to the press gains points for doing this, and the guy who loses points by having it released to the press i

Alternatively, the guy in charge of releasing things to the press gains points for doing this, and the guy who loses points by having it released to the press is someone else who didn't have control over it. As with all organisations, there is politics and point-scoring and competing agendas and just plain incompetence.