Excellent observation. Thanks for posting it. I have a few rhetorical questions:
"Nearly a dozen" -- I wonder what "nearly" means. 11, 10, 9, 11½ (Tommy is small enough to be the half).
"Current and former officials" -- I wonder what they mean by "officials." People who won elections, or people who work for people who won elections, or both? I also wonder if all these "nearly a dozen...officials" met with Slimes reporters individually, a few at a time, or in a group. If not in a group, I wonder if each "official" knew the others were also ratting out their country to the Slimes.
"...granted anonymity because of the classified nature of the program." -- Amazing. The Slimes prints the classified material but grants anonymity to the people who are committing one or more crimes by leaking it. The Slimes, however, doesn't see the irony and contradiction in its own position.
Add Robert Reich and the total becomes 11.75.
I find it very hard to believe that a group of half a dozen nobodies at the CIA, NSA, or elsewhere conspired to leak this to the Times. Gigantic risk. IMHO some sort of big time political gunslinger - and several members of his staff - are the "Nearly a dozen" in question.
The resignation of the FISA judge is also very, very suspicious too.