DADT and Dirty Politics

So, shortly after DADT was repealed, videos surface of some wackiness on the Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while Capt. Owen Honors was the executive officer, and some people are shocked, just SHOCKED that this kind of thing went on. But news stories all note that senior Navy officers knew about the videos years ago, and put a stop to it at some point. As the New York Times notes, "it remains unclear why it took five years for the videos to surface".

Why leak the videos to The Virginian-Pilot, the source of the story, now? Why would the editor who decided to make it news now?