Taking the writer's statements as truth, 6 out of 17 sources for the original Bloomberg story were government. Presuming the information was classified, each on

Taking the writer's statements as truth, 6 out of 17 sources for the original Bloomberg story were government. Presuming the information was classified, each one of those individuals is risking losing their job and going to prison for talking about it. What kind of conclusions the writers made from talking to the other 11 sources, what seniority they had, or even what companies they were from besides 3 from Apple, are anyone's guess. I always am suspect when a government official or employee releases classified information. In some cases extreme moral outrage seems very plausible (Manning, Snowden.) The information is so startling the leaker decides they can handle spending much of the rest of their life in prison. In a much larger number of cases it is for political reasons (Libby, countless other stories where the source is never identified.) Many times, however, I suspect, the information is made up and then no laws have been broken, as far as I understand it.