Mattis Speechwriter The "Anonymous" Author Of "A Warning"?
Via TGP , it seems that The New Republic has outed Guy Snodgrass, speechwriter for Jim "Moderate Dog" Mattis, as 'Anonymous'--the "senior official" who first wrote the early "resistance" Op-ed for the NYT and now has a supposed "tell all" book out called "A Warning." It seems Snodgrass isn't denying it, just not commenting. Read more at the link, but here's the quote from TNR:
“Reading Snodgrass’s Pentagon memoir, Holding the Line , the clues to Anonymous’s identity are apparent. As in A Warning , the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy. Every chapter in both books begins with an inspiring but not cliched quotation from an historic figure. Many passages in both books are remarkably similar: the ordeal of conducting a Pentagon briefing for Trump; national security staffers exchanging appalled asides about Trump’s conduct of foreign policy via Twitter; and the arguments for why American alliances strengthen national security and immigration policy shouldn’t be based on building a border wall. In particular, both books stress that, when briefed about international alliances, Trump derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the United States, from allegedly miserly NATO contributions to ostensibly one-sided trade policies.”
How terrible--derailing briefings by stuffed shirt bureaucrats! Impeach him, resist him! Elections be damned! Swamp rules!
DoJ is seeking the identity of the author because it claims he may have violated non-disclosure agreements.