One reason I’m especially leery of anonymous insiders tweeting/blogging directly to the public - back during the Obama Administration, there was some clown claiming to be in insider in the White House, who told all sorts of stories that went pretty much exactly as wingnuts would dream they would, like Panetta and Clinton locking Obama in a bathroom while they ran the ObL raid without him, because he couldn’t bring himself to have ObL killed.

I saw wingnuts on my Old Stomping Grounds eat it up, because it was exactly what they wanted to believe. I watched as they went from mildly skeptical to ardent believers in these blog posts as their confirmation bias overrode any critical thinking.

That’s why I’ll stick with reports from actual journalists. Anonymous sources are not anonymous to the journalist. They know who they are, and can confirm what their actual job is.

The thing is, these days you really don’t need to follow an anonymous alleged insider. Stories with the most jaw-dropping details have multiple sources. This Administration leaks like a bullet-riddled cartoon character.