Analyzing the Faux Administration Official's Times Op-Ed

William L. Gensert provides his take on the "senior official in the Trump administration" and his or her NYT editorial.

. . . This is not written by a "senior administration official."  The person who wrote this is not in on the decision-making process and doesn't serve in the White House.  He may be a Cabinet official or an appointee at the most. 

"I wouldn't be surprised to find he is something like the third assistant to the secretary of the Regional Administration Committee for Religious Community Outreach."

NYT was caught in 2011 calling an anonymous source (who turned out to be an intern) a 'senior official'

So what exactly are the standards that the Times applies when calling an anonymous person a "senior" official – when the story being spun fits the narrative the Times is pushing?  Phelim McAleer, writing in Townhall, takes a trip down memory lane and reminds us of an incident in which the Times was caught exaggerating to a startling degree, in service to its agenda of demonizing fracking.

Bear all this in mind when you read this in the NY Times: "Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution" and it's by Paul Krugman