The Justice Department is demanding identifying details about the senior Trump administration official who denounced the president in a New York Times Op-Ed last year under the byline Anonymous, according to a letter from a senior law enforcement official Monday ahead of a forthcoming book by the still-unnamed
Assistant Attorney General Joseph H. Hunt asked the book’s publisher and the author’s book agents for proof that the official never signed a nondisclosure agreement and had no access to classified information. Absent that evidence, Hunt asked that they hand over information about where the person worked in the government, and when.
President Donald Trump, who has denounced the leaks that have plagued his White House and sought to keep people around him from sharing private details, has long been troubled by the existence of Anonymous, people close to him said. He said last year that he wanted the Justice Department to investigate the Op-Ed, declaring it an act of treason.
“It is obviously chilling and likely intended that way, but if the government has done it with others, it could be legitimate,” Rosenberg said. “The government has an interest in enforcing nondisclosure agreements and protecting classified information. The open question here is motive.” If the author’s representatives could not prove that the official did not sign a nondisclosure agreement or did not have access to classified information, Hunt demanded identifying information about the person’s government service.
The publication of the Op-Ed in September 2018 condemning Trump as essentially unfit for office and describing a “resistance” within the administration trying to keep the government on course set off frenzied speculation about its author. It prompted discussion within the White House at the time about using polygraph tests to determine the official’s identity. Advisers dropped that idea, but the writer’s identity has remained a Washington mystery.
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