Here's Yardley's subsequent comment on the board:

Jonathan Yardley: The comment of mine two paragraphs above has been leaked, presumably by someone in the newsroom, to the New York Times. Katharine Seelye called me an hour ago pressing for further comment. I declined, stressing that this is a confidential internal critique written solely for the news staff of TWP and refusing to authorize her to quote from it. She called back half an hour later to say that her editor had told her to go ahead and quote from the comment anyway. I told her I expected her to make plain that this is a confidential internal document and that she is quoting from it over the objections of the person who wrote it. She said she would. We'll see.

I hardly see any point in having critiques and comments if they are to be publicized outside the paper. How can we write candidly when candor merely invites violations of confidentiality? Many readers say they distrust us. Well, now I find myself wondering if we can trust each other.

Here's one intriguing comment on the board:

When did Bob Woodward tell Len Downie about this, and was it before or after Bart Gellman's 10/30 reconstruction of the Libby case?

On a related note, even though these are professional writers, I was surprised to see how well written and spelling-error free the posts are. Pretty impressive, go take a look.