That or "anonymous sources" wouldn't have helped. That works with papers that have a long earned reputation of mostly reporting facts. They may have biases in their selection of which stories to run, or what angles to approach those stores from, but what they report as a fact is in fact a fact far far far far more often than not.

(Pause for people to jump in to cite examples of such papers getting it wrong. This will be the small set of examples that is always cited).

The Post is not such a paper.