Trump-Russia dossier: anonymous sources.
Michael Wolff book: no sources, or at best, anonymous sources
Woodward book: anonymous sources
Everything Adam Schiff says: anonymous sources
NYT op-ed: anonymous source
So, Q anon is a hoax but liberal anon is fact?
My guess is that John Brennan wrote the piece and passed it off as coming from a "senior official".
Brennan has the means and experience to be able to pull something like this. The NYT might very well believe it is coming from a real source in inside the admin .This a simple false flag op.