In an atmosphere of uncertainty and suspicion, the administration is trying to identify the author of the article published by The New York Times Wednesday without signing and denounced what he called "dangerous behavior and disturbing" to President Donald Trump.
"I am part of the resistance within the Trump administration," said a member of the Trump administration. "How do you work with others to deal with the worst of a president with a" trivial, "" reckless "and" ineffective "leadership bias?
"We are committed to doing what we can to preserve the democratic institutions while confronting the very regrettable motives of Mr. Trump until he leaves office," the writer said.
After Trump said on Wednesday evening in an angry frenzy of what he described as a possible "betrayal", he returned Thursday to ridicule the behavior of what he called "false news media."
In a rare event, White House President Melanie Trump strongly condemned a written response on CNN saying that "you do not protect this country but destroy it with cowardice."
The obscure publication of the article came the day after the publication of excerpts from the book Fear, in which investigative journalist Bob Woodward famously portrayed Trump's top aides as not caring at times about his instructions to reduce what they saw as his destructive and dangerous behavior, raising many questions in Washington and beyond.
Of these questions: Did the mysterious author write the article solo? Or was he a spokesman for a wider group? Is he from the circle close to the president? Will he go out into the open to give greater weight to his testimony?
The New York Times adopted a loosely defined version of the article as a "senior official in the Trump administration", allowing freedom to interpret and spread the most bizarre assumptions.
It is strange that the vice president's office felt the need to publish a statement confirming the innocence of Mike Bens in this case.
"The vice president signs the articles he writes," Garod Eigen, director of the Bens Press Office, wrote. "The New York Times should be ashamed, as was the person who wrote this false, illogical and cowardly article."
Several officials also issued statements denying the article. "The guesses that I wrote the New York Times article or my associates are baseless," US intelligence chief Dean Coates said in a statement.
For his part, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is visiting India, is not the owner of the article. As did the Chambers of Defense Secretary James Matisse.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders advised all "obsessed" journalists to identify who she called the "loser" to call the New York Times "the only accomplice to this malice," as she put it.
The former director of the CIA, John Brennan, also saw this unusual article at all levels as showing "the degree of concern within the administration itself."
"I do not know how Donald Trump will react," Brennan told NBC. "The wounded lion is a very dangerous animal, and I see that Donald Trump is wounded."