Actually, I made an error myself in that paragraph. Thompson asserts that his WH and intelligence community sources merely denied Wilkinson's presence at a WH meeting and his history as a member of the intelligence community, respectively. Nobody at the WH or CIA/FBI, according to Thompson, ever knew of one Terrance J.Wilkinson.
It is only on the Hill, a place infamous for its rat's nests of competing loyalties and idle gossip, that Thompson manages to come up with someone who says "she" knew Wilkinson. Perhaps this anonymous "she" will come out from under the cloak of anonymity and identify herself, and then provide Thompson's readers with a physical description of and the history of her association with the man she knew as Terrance J. Wilkinson.
Surely that should be a no-brainer --- easy to do and of no cost at all to her. She has no reason to be embarrassed because, unlike Thompson, she is not responsible for the false story. And of course there is no compelling national security interest that would require her to keep her association with Wilkinson a secret.
Let's get this cleared up once and for all --- What is the real identity of Terrance J. Wilkinson? Where is he now?