Ah, unless I'm missing something, the dates don't line up. The story you posted a link to was published on Feb 20th, sez this guy is out the door on the 28th of Feb. Over a month before the NSTB 'leak'. And if by leak you mean that a link to the press release is posted on the NTSB's home page on the World Wide Web, for literally the entire world to access, then yeah, very cloak and dagger on the part of the Feds, and this guy certainly went rogue.