“I’ve been saying for two weeks that this would be the best time in the world to leak, because no one is going to want to launch a leak investigation, but I was wrong,” said Peter Zeidenberg, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the investigation into the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity. “When you look at this pattern of leaks, they don’t have any choice.”

“They’ve really got immediate huge, major leaks that sort of put the AP story and the Fox and Rosen things in a complete different light. Those look relatively minor, while these are huge,” said Ted Boutrous, a media lawyer who has represented journalists caught up in leak inquiries. “I have very little doubt that they will conduct an aggressive investigation.”

Making things potentially more uncomfortable for Obama: though the phone tracking and internet company surveillance programs could be seen as Bush-era extensions that he’s at least somewhat detached from, his Offensive Cyber Effects Operations order to prepare targets for cyberattacks is his own — and potentially not the last revelation that’s going to come from the sources or sources behind what’s come out…

”It’s very, very alarming. You’ve got basically a double agent in your midst taking all your secrets and just handing them out to the press,” said Zeidenberg. “I think that that’s a huge issue.”