Headscratcher (14)

Your correspondent was shipped off to Hogwarts Elementary (Without the Magic) at the age of eight. One of the things at which that institution excelled was to instill a thorough and abiding understanding of the Eleventh Commandment. It states quite simply:

Thou shalt not be found out.

Later in life, but while still young, your correspondent went to work for a former - and subsequently - very high government official. On your correspondent's first day of work, his boss called him into the office and provided the following information:

1. There are no secrets. 
2. Never do, say, or put in writing (particularly the last) anything that you would be embarrassed to see on the front page of the Washington Post.

Your correspondent has never forgotten the first and has generally although, admittedly, not always successfully, tried to live up to the second. 

It seems that New Jersey Governor Christie and his staff do not understand the Eleventh Commandment and, more surprisingly, it also appears that he has never had the really important conversation about secrets or the Washington Post with his senior staff.

That a man touted as a likely Presidential candidate should be so obtuse is a headscratcher indeed!