When top aides to President Clinton leaked his admission of an "inappropriate relationship" to Richard Berke of the New York Times,prior to Clinton's public admission before the grand jury,this was an example of a(n)

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This was a trial balloon, which refers to a strategy in which information is leaked to a selected group of people to gauge how the public and media may react to a potential announcement or decision. In this case, Clinton's aides leaked the information to the New York Times to see how the public and media may react to the news of his admission of an affair before Clinton publicly admitted it.

When Top Aides to President Clinton Leaked His Admission of an "Inappropriate