Guy Snodgrass is anonymous, many people have pinpointed him, Mattis’s speechwriter came out the other day, saying “now this is what Trump
Should do next, on daily caller 2/25/20
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/25/exclusive-james-mattis-white-house-aide-guy-snodgrass-taliban-peace-plan/
Mattis Speechwriter The "Anonymous" Author Of "A Warning"?
Via TGP, it seems that The New Republic has outed Guy Snodgrass, speechwriter for Jim "Moderate Dog" Mattis, as 'Anonymous'–the "senior official" who first wrote the early "resistance" Op-ed for the NYT and now has a supposed "tell all" book out called "A Warning." It seems Snodgrass isn't denying it, just not commenting. Read more at the link, but here's the quote from TNR:
“Reading Snodgrass’s Pentagon memoir, Holding the Line, the clues to Anonymous’s identity are apparent. As in A Warning, the sentences and paragraphs are pithy and punchy. Every chapter in both books begins with an inspiring but not cliched quotation from an historic figure. Many passages in both books are remarkably similar: the ordeal of conducting a Pentagon briefing for Trump; national security staffers exchanging appalled asides about Trump’s conduct of foreign policy via Twitter; and the arguments for why American alliances strengthen national security and immigration policy shouldn’t be based on building a border wall. In particular, both books stress that, when briefed about international alliances, Trump derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the United States, from allegedly miserly NATO contributions to ostensibly one-sided trade policies.”
http://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2019/11/mattis-speechwriter-anonymous-author-of.html?m=1
James Mattis Doesn’t Want You to Read This Book
Trump’s former defense secretary has excoriated the author of a new tell-all book.
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After James Mattis flew across the country nearly three years ago to interview with Donald Trump for the Secretary of Defense post, the retired Marine Corps general was sure he had flunked the test. “I certainly won’t be hearing back from those guys,” Mattis later recalled to his staff in one of many memorable meetings documented by Guy Snodgrass, his chief speechwriter and the author of Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis. During the interview, Mattis “disagreed with the president-elect on every one of the main points that he raised.” That conflict “presaged a fundamental chasm, one that would only widen with time,” Snodgrass wrote.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/james-mattis-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this-book/