Laura Rozen looks into the cable of Ambassador Eikenberry which was leaked to the press during administration discussions about an Afghanistan strategy. Journalists often maintain an “honor among thieves” mentality and protect each other. When journalists drop their pens and enter policy, however, as many have under the Obama administration, they neither abandon their old contacts nor their habits of trading information or helping former colleagues. This is understandable when a journalist becomes a press secretary or public-affairs officer, but should be unacceptible when a journalist enters a traditional policy job. What Rozen omits is that Eikenberry hired her colleague, former New York Times and Politico journalist David S. Cloud, to be an aide and adviser. Perhaps Cloud leaked the document; perhaps he didn’t. But ignoring the role of journalists working as policy advisers is somewhat akin to housing foxes in a hen house and then acting surprised when some of the chicks go missing.