Justice Department Issues Mysterious Statement on Anonymous Sources

There is much consternation this morning with the chattering classes in the media after a strange and unprecedented message from the Department of Justice warning about what can only be described as the epidemic of fake news.

Late Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein released the following statement:

Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country — let alone the branch or agency of government — with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated.

Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations,” the statement continues. “The Department of Justice has a long-standing policy to neither confirm or deny such allegations.

Mr. Rosenstein’s statement is the first to specifically address the constant flow of anonymous leaks to the big three media sources: CNN, The New York Times and the Washington Post and comes after a new series of stories attributed to the unnamed sources in the WAPO.

The anonymous sources are clearly leaking inside information from special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s rapidly expanding fishing expedition, a serious development as well as an indication that Mueller can’t be trusted to carry out an independent investigation due to his conflict of interest from being James Comey’s BFF.

Speculation is being bandied about today that the statement is a preemptive move to get out in front of a coming blockbuster of a story to be broken just in time for the weekend news cycle based on those same anonymous sources.

Adding a degree of mystery to the statement is President Trump’s Friday morning tweet fingering Rosenstein for leading an inquisition of him into the firing of former FBI Director Comey.

The media is swarming Trump’s tweet as being an acknowledgment that he is indeed being investigated over dumping Comey, a very slippery character with a highly questionable agenda who participated in the cover-up of Hillary Clinton’s emails along with other high-ranking Obama administration officials ostensibly including former Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

One thing in particular about Rosenstein’s statement that is going largely unnoticed is his reference that the leaks to the media could be from a foreign country:

Americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous ‘officials,’ particularly when they do not identify the country — let alone the branch or agency of government — with which the alleged sources supposedly are affiliated.

Americans should be skeptical about anonymous allegations,” the statement continues. “The Department of Justice has a long-standing policy to neither confirm or deny such allegations.

It’s probably reasonably safe to say that Americans should brace for an impact as the dropping of the M.O.A.B. (Mother of All Bullshit) stories based on anonymous sources is imminent.

As Lewis Carroll once wrote in Alice in Wonderland: things get curiouser and curiouser.