There's no specific reason that I have to distrust Politico, or this article in particular. On the other hand, that's not really a great standard, and the trend

There's no specific reason that I have to distrust Politico, or this article in particular. On the other hand, that's not really a great standard, and the trend of verbatim repeating the words of anonymous government sources needs to end... having sources that are anonymous in the government is fine, but what they say needs to be corroborated.