Here's 'Anonymous,' Trump Aides Say. And Here's How They Outed Her.
RealClearInvestigations,
by
Paul Sperry
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
4/15/2020 1:19:18 PM
Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
0658 4/15/2020 1:25:33 PM (No. 380524)
Transfer to Saudi is too good for her. More severe action is in order; Criminal or termination at the least. Quit coddling these leakers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Luandir 4/15/2020 1:44:06 PM (No. 380534)
#1, do you understand what life is like for women in Saudi Arabia? It will be the closest thing to house arrest that the Admin could have thought up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 4/15/2020 1:50:02 PM (No. 380540)
Well! One of my favorite journalists is Monica Showalter over at the American Thinker. (I always read her stuff because it's well written and worth my time.)
Back in February Monica offered a rather enthusiastic and well supported defense of her friend, Victoria Coates.
That said, this article is pretty damning and provides a great deal of supporting evidence. Especially interesting is Coate's history as an anonymous blogger!
I wonder what Monica is thinking? I kind of feel sorry for her right now. I'm looking forward to more information on this.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
curious1 4/15/2020 1:52:31 PM (No. 380545)
Either Saudi Arabia or permanent assignment to the Antarctic science station 24/7.
Of course, were I to do what anonymous did, I'd make certain my writing style matched someone else. As Grampa always said, if you give some guy a hot-foot at work, make sure 12 other guys have matches in their lunchbox.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/15/2020 1:59:58 PM (No. 380551)
I read the entire article. Their evidence is compelling that they've found the right person. Really great detective work, including the use of authoring forensics (i.e., detailed comparison of writing styles).
Definitely a damning example of a stealth Never-Trumper. Pretensions of being "moralistic" yet acting as a subversive saboteur all the while, and incredibly arrogant about their own intelligence and ability to avoid discovery. Genuine hubris.
I side with those that don't think that a clever redeployment to a rotten assignment is real justice here. She was/is actively involved in sedition in a time of great crisis and danger to our country. She should be punished to the fuill extent of the law, including prison.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/15/2020 2:07:41 PM (No. 380559)
Hmm, get a rope for Treason or whatever sticks!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msjena 4/15/2020 2:10:41 PM (No. 380562)
Fascinating article. One question--how does someone with a PhD in Art History end up in high-level government positions?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/15/2020 2:18:15 PM (No. 380571)
This is a very, very interesting, very well-researched article. That’s what Paul Sperry does.
It had to be a woman. Men don’t talk about misogyny.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/15/2020 2:21:40 PM (No. 380575)
Some people are very good at hiding their motives and actions because they know they could not get away with being public about them. Friends often don't see it because the actions are focused on a specific target.
The evidence is pretty convincing. Anonymous was stupid to provide a book full of writing style and personal characteristics that could be used to match them up to real people. The number of people in Trump's direct orbit is fairly limited. Matching the possible people up to the clues would be pretty certain just because no one in the circle would be anywhere close to as good a match. You might say that someone was misdirecting but to do that for a whole book's worth of clues would be impossible unless she was specifically being targeted. Why would anyone bother? Why didn't this occur to someone knowledgeable in security work? Arrogance. The same arrogance required to try to surreptitiously undermine a President.
Hope she enjoys the sand. No one will ever give her any meaningful work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/15/2020 2:24:18 PM (No. 380579)
Re #7, here’s how - from her Wiki page:
In the 2000s, she blogged mainly about foreign policy under the pen name "AcademicElephant" at the Conservative blog RedState.[4] Her blog posts were read by aides of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who later recruited Coates to work as an advisor for his book, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, published in 2011.[4]
Coates served as an advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry during his 2012 presidential bid before she became an advisor to Ted Cruz in 2013 and his leading national security advisor during his 2016 presidential campaign.[4]
As for what one would learn as an art history major, the survey course that I took in college taught me more about world history and politics than any history class ever did...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/15/2020 2:35:15 PM (No. 380592)
So is there a penalty?
Or does she skate?
Like they ALL seem to do....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Pearson365 4/15/2020 2:45:24 PM (No. 380595)
Question is whether the Democrats who make most decisions for the DoJ & FBI treat her like Gen Flynn for lying or like Comey, Brennan and Hillary. Sadly, I think she gets the Hillary treatment so that she can author more attacks on Trump under “Anonymous”. We all know that the FBI won’t conduct an armed SWAT raid on her home. Such raids are reserved for Trump supporters.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/15/2020 2:47:51 PM (No. 380598)
k.T. McFarland should be kept away from the Trump administration. She hired the British bimbo, Fiona Hill. and Hill had spent years working for George Soros. K.T. may also have selected the fat faced Ukranian lt. Col. for NSC.
The entire NSC staff should be subjected to polygraph examinations, and reconstituted by hiring patriots, not traitors.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
EQKimball 4/15/2020 4:38:52 PM (No. 380732)
Had Coates resigned and then written under her own name, it would have been more honorable than continuing to serve as a sort of political mole. That said, would we make the same moral judgment about her had she done the same thing as a member of the Obama White House? Miles' Law posits that "where you stand depends upon where you sit." In politics and other competitive endeavors, too often each side will condemn coming from the other side what they will overlook or even approve from their own. How you felt about the (Reggie) "Bush Push," for example, very likely depended on whether you were rooting for the Fighting Irish or the Trojans. True honesty does require uncomfortable introspection. Had she worked for Obama, I might have said she was heroic.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PCMM 4/15/2020 6:13:25 PM (No. 380817)
Nauseating. Everyone associated with her has to go. Sorry, not sorry.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/15/2020 6:32:25 PM (No. 380837)
One of the best things about Trump's election is it shows the treachery in Washington, D.C. What I want to know is how much this woman coordinated her activities with Ted Cruz.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/15/2020 6:34:12 PM (No. 380841)
Honesty is the best policy. Do people still believe in that? If the rule of the land is violated, then, that criminal should be prosecuted and put in jail. Well, maybe it's not as simple as that. Today, in this 21st century, people are starting to believe that the act of crime is not a crime unless they're CAUGHT! Stealing and cheating are prevalent to satisfy one's selfish desires while ignoring the negative consequence that may affect other's livelihood. It's only when they're caught do they realize that the crime was committed. Again, simply put, people are now living by the principle of, " IT'S NOT A CRIME SO LONG AS YOU DON'T GET CAUGHT".
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Roark 4/15/2020 7:37:44 PM (No. 380927)
#4: Writing style is personal. It would be very hard to duplicate for very long, especially against a forensic writing program. There is word usage, phrase usage, punctuation usage, sentence structure, paragraph flow and so on. It can get very complicated, yet a forensic program can break those elements down into patterns and match those patterns across multiple works. The article was quite detailed about the many aspects matching between Coates's numerous published works and the sizable amount Anonymous generated, particularly "Warning." Far too much to simply copy a "style." Had she stopped with the NYT piece Coates might have remained anonymous, but her hubris compelled her to write "Warning" and closet TDS did her in.
As far as Saudi Arabia goes, Sperry was clear on that as well: by not firing her and putting her somewhere quite out of the way, she does not become an election year issue. Perhaps next year. My prediction is there will be so much hitting the fan next year nobody will notice, much less care, what happened to a no-name mid-level advisor. But, indeed, Saudi Arabia was a shrewd, shrewd choice.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/15/2020 7:50:16 PM (No. 380941)
You are wrong to equivocate #14. IF she had written anything while serving the BO administration, she would have been doing a public service and following numerous laws, since the BO administration broke thousands of laws, guidelines, regulations, traditions and evil things normal people would never think of doing.
That is not a biased accusation, there are multiple cases of BO and crew smashing existing laws, many right on camera. Holder, Biden and BO himself. They all made statements that the facts disprove. She would have been removed IF she or anyone blew the whistle on BO, but since it is Trump anything she says, even if it is a lie or her twisted, fevered, imagination is treated as a fact. Her lies about an administration that has the entire MSM pouring over every word, every act the administration does. This is not 'truth' telling. There is NOTHING there. The proof is 3 years of fishing and millions spent on trying to find something, anything on Trump and coming up empty. This is a sleazy, emotional, low class woman, whining about nonsense issues because she is a backstabbing liar and coward. She can't stand a man who acts like a man. Simple as that and DC is some kind of hothouse for churning out entitled, lying, smug, stupid elitist punks.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 4/15/2020 7:54:36 PM (No. 380945)
Putting her in SA is perfect. She'll find REAL misogyny there and get to grin and bear it. Can't drive, all sorts of other limits on women to help remind her what being a backstabbing liar gets you.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/15/2020 8:29:09 PM (No. 380984)
Federal government employment has a lot of unethical sleazy types because unlike many private sector jobs, they remain employed, promoted and earning a pension despite poor performance and law breaking.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/15/2020 8:45:00 PM (No. 380999)
Innocent people usually don't lawyer up!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
pensom2 4/15/2020 9:28:34 PM (No. 381038)
President Trump seems mighty busy. Makes me wonder how this woman found time to write books. Seems to me she likely writes on the taxpayer's dime.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 4/16/2020 11:52:01 AM (No. 381648)
CNN is on line one, with a job offer for Ms Coates.
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