The anonymous writer of the scathing resistance The New York Times op-ed of an embedded Trump administration official remains a secret one year later, as the The Washington Post reported.
"The fact that Anonymous remains anonymous seems like more than just a loose end," the Post's Paul Farhi wrote. "In an age of oversharing and TMI, it is tantamount to a small miracle of restraint and discretion."
The report outlines five known individuals who have been able to keep it secret: Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger; editorial page editor James Bennet; op-ed editor James Dao; the "intermediary;" and the author him/herself.
"As we said a year ago, this op-ed offered a significant first-person perspective that had not yet been presented to Times readers, describing the efforts made by some inside to carry out policies they believed in while containing what they saw as the president's troubling impulses," Bennet wrote in a statement to the Post's Farhi.
"The substance of that piece has been born out by reporting at the Times and elsewhere over the past year."
Post Watergate reporter Bob Woodward is coincidentally skeptical over the Times op-ed because of the lack of specifics in it – although the competing argument is getting too specific would out the writer to President Donald Trump, who has bandied the term "treason" about.
"What's lacking in the op-ed piece are specifics," Woodward told the Post. "If the person had come to me when I was writing the book, I would have said, 'What are the specifics? What did you see? What did you participate in?'
"If they couldn't offer those details, I wouldn't have put it in the book. I would have said, 'Take it to the New York Times.'"
Farhi finished with the in jest comment: "The author of the Times op-ed could not be reached for comment."
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