When a whirlwind of shocking news comes out about scandalous business practices or government corruption, it's easy to forget that the most unbelievably bizarre parts of it are often not known to the public.
Usually, we only find out decades after the fact about the strange habits of presidents or the baffling reasons behind the decisions of other powerful leaders.
However, it becomes much easier to gain access to that information when the people present for a strange period in history no longer see the benefit in keeping what they know to themselves. And it seems that day has come for several White House officials.