Washington Post

National Newspaper — Political Leak Reporting and White House Scrutiny

Description

The Washington Post employs a science editor pursuing a blind source's claim that Vice President Hoynes suppressed a NASA report on life on Mars, prompting White House legal review. Columnist Stu Winkle publishes gossip on First Lady Helen Baldwin, fueled by Hoynes' calls, escalating the leak hunt as C.J. confronts him by phone and rallies senior staff.

Affiliated Characters

Stu Winkle

Gossip Columnist

Washington Post Editor

Editor

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S2E6

Bartlet's Aspirin Desperation Exposes Chaos; Leo Imposes Memo Discipline

Amid frenzied Oval Office crosstalk on Senate reshuffles for the Test Ban Treaty, President Bartlet quips about the circus-like disarray, then demands aspirin and a …

S2E6

C.J.'s Editorial Clash and Strategic Lame Duck Leak to Danny

In the yellow hallway transitioning to her office, C.J. sharply confronts Danny over the Washington Post's fourth anti-Test Ban Treaty editorial in two weeks, accusing …

S4E21

Orientation and Orders: Quincy Is Put On Notice

Newly arrived Associate White House Counsel Joe Quincy is introduced to his cramped basement office and the office culture (a wary, joking distaste for lawyers) …

S4E21

The Stu Winkle Break — Leak Link Revealed

Quincy arrives in C.J.'s office and — after hedging — names Stu Winkle as the likely conduit for the damaging stories. While C.J. distracts him …