White House bracing for intelligence spending exposé

From a report at the link below:

The Obama administration is bracing for the first in a series of Washington Post articles said to focus in unprecedented detail on the government's spending on intelligence contractors.
The intelligence community is warning that the article could blow the cover of contract companies doing top-secret work for the government. At the same time, a senior administration official acknowledged that the kind of wasteful spending expected to be spotlighted in the series is "troubling" and something the administration is trying to address.

Will others in the media jump to the defense of the Obama administration in an effort to play down the upcoming exposé?

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