Washington is in a tizzy these days. From Capitol Hill to Georgetown and everywhere in between, folks are speculating about the identity of that anonymous op-ed writer claiming to be part of a secret “resistance” within the Trump administration. It’s D.C.’s biggest guessing game since “Who was Deep Throat?”

It puts me in mind of another unidentified official who long ago disagreed with his boss, and what he did to inform Americans about it played a big part in the buildup to the Revolutionary War.