(September 6, 2018 at 9:57 am)Crossless2.0 Wrote: Given what is riding on this being legitimate, I'm confident that someone in the Times Op-Ed department thought to wonder, Guys, do you think it might just be a low-level wannabe?
They know who it is. Problem is that they ambiguously said "senior level." Is that cabinet level? One step down? Three steps down? Have any of us heard of this person? There are so many layers to Washington bureaucracy that "senior" doesn't tell us much.
Quote:You can indulge your cheap and selective skepticism if you wish,
Yes, as it's really easy to be skeptical of an anonymous source.
Quote:but when the Times takes such an extraordinary step as to publish this piece and publicly states that the author, known to them, is a senior-level administration official, I doubt they got it wrong.
Again, what's senior level?
