I know exactly what you mean, waj.
Would you like to be added to the TdF ping list?
And I'm going to second (third?) whattajoke's comment. At this point I'm pretty inured to the charges, especially ones that are as vague as this. And ya gotta wonder what the motive for leaking the feds leaking 'news' absent any news whatsoever of their investigation to the NYT right now. There's not a shred of anything in there except dark implication so what was the point? I'm not impugning Juliet for going with the story at all; she absolutely should have written it if the feds are feeding her whispers, even if it is only will-o-the-wispish as what's here. That in & of itself is a story.
Somedays I'd be hard pressed to say who is more cyncially self-serving: athletes who dope or the anti-doping authorities who don't exactly cover themselves with glory with their own conduct.
Whether it's the French doping lab staff who leak confidential info to L'Equipe (in exchange for cash and/or to manipulate the betting odds over in Europe) or federal investigators here who leak nothing substantive, only prejudicial & attempt to polish their badges by smearing others' names by inuendo - which is impossible to defend against.
I mean, come on, even if they're guilty as sin, why is it US athletes merit less concern for their rights from government investigators than the Times Square bomber does?