the Deep State leaks (funny that those have now stopped against the POTUS, huh?). Willing to violate the law because they think that they are facing an existential crisis of extinction level importance.
That's how zealots see the world and their cause.
If this were an isolated instance, I wouldn't say a thing, but there have been so many,many instances of these conveniently timed leaks....always in the same political direction.
You may think you are somehow being reasonable, but in the context of an overwhelming number of examples, it is you who apears foolish for trying to deny the obvious.
>90% chance this clerk is one of Sotomoyers - the least qualified, most political of the justices who just 2 months ago referred to trump's 3 SCOTUS appointments as "the smell of political stench" while sitting on the bench.
Since clerks tend to follow the lead of their mentor, it seems most likely. Could be a zealot hidden elsewhere, but we will soon know...I doubt the clerk wants to add lying to federal agents to the problem list which would be a slam dunk conviction, and would carry prison time.
The zealot will fess up and look for the Anita Hill/Blasey-Ford hero treatment from the Left.