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The excerpts read just like her speech patterns.
She was gutless to stop Kids in Cages... and now she is gutless about putting her name on the book.

NCLefty
(3,678 posts)I'm betting the WHOLE farm! I'll call you back after I win and you can come live on my yacht.
:p
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)dweller
(26,425 posts)terms! 2 terms .. not farms, TERMS
sheesh
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elleng
(139,203 posts)disclosing such information is NOT gutless.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)how crazy he really is are gutless. He should have been removed as soon as they found out. But none of them care because they are stacking the courts and getting all their ducks in a row before anything is done. After that we are screwed seven ways to Sunday.
brush
(59,591 posts)trump was dangerously unfit for office and threat to our nation, and the world really and did nothing.
Consequences for sure and even worst or those who have stayed or the duration like Kelly Ann Conway.
CrispyQ
(39,490 posts)The GOP has been playing the long game while the dems have been in reactionary mode. Biden still thinks that GOP congress will work with him. I love Biden, but that's just
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)The whistleblower is a career public servant, who followed proper whistleblower law guidelines.
"Anonymous" was a politically appointee of Trump's, who was in a position of influence and power. They did not go through the whistleblower law, and their book is a political act to cover for their own complicity in the crimes of this administration.
After Trump is out of office, this cowardly "Anonymous" will come out - and claim that "see? I was against him all the while."
Meanwhile, they aided and abetted his crimes.
stopdiggin
(13,603 posts)but serving such a master (for anything longer than 2-3 weeks) shows a startling lack of character and moral fiber. Nielsen was responsible for implementing the child separations and "children in cages" policies.
elleng
(139,203 posts)nothing here but suspicion she's 'anonymous.'
dawg day
(7,947 posts)I was imagining Kellyanne Conway.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Don't know that I blame her for being Anonymous.
Celerity
(49,391 posts)mahina
(19,700 posts)About the language that clearly sounds like a woman but it is unmistakeable.
Not that all women compose that way but no men do that Ive ever met or read.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)professes to tell you with good reliability whether the writer was male or female.
It's been out there since the 2000s at least, I don't know if its been tested for rigor and either proved useful or debunked.
But yes sexuality is a continuum so even a good text analysis algorithm for gender is going to be imperfect.
I'm not vouching for it. I just remember running the JonBenet Ramsey "ransom note" through it and it indicated the several pages-long "note" was written by a female. Which fit my and many people's "theories of the case," i.e. that Patsy Ramsey had to have written it.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)She's just too annoying to be in my space.
Mike 03
(18,396 posts)I preordered the book and if it came out today that it's her, I'd un-order. I don't believe it's someone who still works at the WH.
Arthur_Frain
(2,229 posts)I always thought her husband was. Technically, he doesnt have insider status, but his marriage gives him entree to the clique. Plus I agree with you that she is repellant, and the garbage that comes out of her mouth is true blue trumper humper horseshit.
If she ever had a come to Jesus moment about what she was truly involved in here, I wonder if she would have helped her husband write the book by being his mole, but continue to play the loyalist? Starting to make up my own conspiracy theory bullshit here, but if thats whats going down, she deserves an Emmy for her act.
Mike 03
(18,396 posts)I never once considered her. This is a great guess. The timing works out well too, as I believe it's someone who no longer works in the administration. She had very good access but also her own non-WH space, and now she's had several months to actually work on the book (probably with a ghost writer).
whistler162
(11,155 posts)after all he is the brains of the group.
babylonsister
(171,997 posts)still working at the wh?
Mike 03
(18,396 posts)according to the publicity for the book and related articles.
It could be someone still there, but IMO the risk is too great for someone currently working there to write an entire book because the odds of remaining anonymous are slim to none in something of this length. My money is on this being in the "former" category.
(Or, if someone at the WH abruptly resigns in the next week or two, that could be a clue.)
I'm hoping it is Nielson because that rules out it being someone who left years ago (Tillerson, Cohn, McMaster, etc.) and couldn't add much to what we already know from people who spoke to Bob Woodward.
Yavin4
(37,182 posts)Would blow your mind right?
superpatriotman
(6,681 posts)He hates his FIL for coveting his wife
Mike 03
(18,396 posts)And now we learn she believed Pence would have been on board with the 25th amendment? Some readers thought the use of "Lodestar" was a rather amateurish attempt to frame Pence as the author of the Anonymous piece.
Just think it's interesting.
For the record, I don't believe Pence would have been on board, but what do I know?
babylonsister
(171,997 posts)find courage when she was so lacking in it when it came to caging kids?
USALiberal
(10,877 posts)scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)Several experts have said it is her.
Josh Campbell being one.
Mike 03
(18,396 posts)at meetings involving border security, was focused on the "cruelty" of trump, and contains other clues that definitely make her a good candidate. She also talks about mass resignations (presumably within her department) and that has also been written about since her resignation and even recently when someone left DHS. There were "purges" of people at DHS, some of the reporting described them as.
Neilson could also have been the source for the story that Trump had told border security to go ahead and break laws and he would pardon them, because Anonymous criticizes Trump for believing pardons are like get out of jail free cards he could hand to anyone who'd broken the law. This is all matching up.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)who is still there. Not Kellyanne.
2naSalit
(96,471 posts)Nielsen has none of those traits. I think it's possibly more than one person.
Iggo
(48,797 posts)Johnny2X2X
(22,749 posts)In a just world, she'd be sent to prison for what she did to families at the border. She's a sick and disgusting excuse for a human being. That she thinks Trump is a dangerous psychopath is no penance for the people she's harmed. I hope she rots in hell after hanging herself from guilt.