[Buckeye McFrog]

This is revenge by Comey and McCabe and ???

If so it proves that they operate on the emotional level of slightly disturbed fourteen-year old girls. A sobering thought when you consider the sort of power they held.

[Reverend Wright]

Another possibility. This is coming from Mueller himself.

This story if believed would:
-hurt Trump
-hurt Rosenstein
-hurt Kavanaugh
-hurt Repubs in the election
-probably kill the Mueller “investigation”

The NYT believes in the Mueller investigation. They think it will get Trump. I think the only source that would convince them otherwise and convince the editors to run this story is Mueller himself.