Stephen Ford? You don’t mean President Ford’s son..!? That name is a blast from the past.
Whether this Op-Ed is genuinely a WH Official or not, ever since Dwight Eisenhower the media have portrayed Republican presidents as lazy, ill-informed, maniacs while Democrat presidents are hard working, reliable and admired.
Could you imagine if a WH staffer wanted to pen a piece or reveal information anonymously on a Democrat administration’s underhand dealings? It’ll never have been accepted.
The Pentagon Papers had little to do with Richard Nixon but he took the canning. Washington Post got the Pulitzer for it, WikiLeaks has told us some corrupt happenings in the Obama administration. They should go full-out now.
It wouldn't even get that far. If someone on the inside had tried to snitch on Obama, the NYT (or WaPo, or AP, or NBC, etc) would have picked up the phone and ratted them out within seconds.