"Anonymous"
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Remember this?
It was Miles Taylor. Yup, you read that right. THE Miles Taylor. Yeah, HIM!! The guy whom the New York Times described as a "Senior Administration Official."
Er...no. At the time he wrote it, he was a DHS policy advisor, whatever that is.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Remember, "It's Jared!"
"No! It's Ivanka!"
"No, it's Kelly!"
"Wankers....it's MELANIA!!"
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Remember this?
It was Miles Taylor. Yup, you read that right. THE Miles Taylor. Yeah, HIM!! The guy whom the New York Times described as a "Senior Administration Official."
Er...no. At the time he wrote it, he was a DHS policy advisor, whatever that is.
@George-K said in "Anonymous":
It was Miles Taylor. Yup, you read that right. THE Miles Taylor. Yeah, HIM!! The guy whom the New York Times described as a "Senior Administration Official."
Er...no. At the time he wrote it, he was a DHS policy advisor, whatever that is.
Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Of course you can continue to debate that qualifies as "Senior Administration Official."
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@George-K said in "Anonymous":
It was Miles Taylor. Yup, you read that right. THE Miles Taylor. Yeah, HIM!! The guy whom the New York Times described as a "Senior Administration Official."
Er...no. At the time he wrote it, he was a DHS policy advisor, whatever that is.
Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Of course you can continue to debate that qualifies as "Senior Administration Official."
@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":
Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Not when he wrote it.
And here's what a REAL Senior White House official has to say about that:
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":
Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Not when he wrote it.
And here's what a REAL Senior White House official has to say about that:
@George-K said in "Anonymous":
@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":
Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Not when he wrote it.
He was Deputy Chief of Staff when he wrote to op-ed.
Sure, you can still continue to debate whether that qualifies as "Senior Administration Official". -
@George-K said in "Anonymous":
@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":
Miles Taylor was Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
Not when he wrote it.
He was Deputy Chief of Staff when he wrote to op-ed.
Sure, you can still continue to debate whether that qualifies as "Senior Administration Official".@Axtremus said in "Anonymous":
He was Deputy Chief of Staff when he wrote to op-ed.
In the final days before the election, "Anonymous" has come out. He is Miles Taylor, who at the time he wrote the op-ed was a policy adviser in the Department of Homeland Security. (He later became chief of staff.) The first reaction of nearly everyone was to ask, "Who?" Taylor, a mid-level bureaucrat, was not the top official the Times suggested he was and all of Washington assumed him to be. He didn't have the sort of daily contact with President Trump that readers guessed. In short, "Anonymous" was far less than he seemed.
The op ed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_Inside_the_Trump_Administration
Sept 5, 2018.
Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resignations
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/politics/new-york-times-op-ed-donald-trump/index.html
it's telling that the Times was willing to extend the cloak of anonymity to this author -- especially, again, because of the stakes and the target. This is not a decision made lightly. That the decision was made to publish it should tell you that this isn't some disgruntled mid-to-upper manager buried in the bureaucracy. This is a genuine high-ranking official. A name most people who follow politics -- and maybe some who don't -- would recognize. The Times simply wouldn't do what it did for anything short of a major figure in Trump world.
That hasn't aged well, has it?
