Precisely. You ARE "speaking to his veracity as a source of info".
His claim may be true. You have no way of determining if it is so. That is my point.
And a good point it is. The solution is to cross check, not to reject out-of-hand.
Maxine, same thing. I'd expect the SB to blab the truth, only because the B is so S she thinks it's a good thing!
OTOH, she is so S that one simply must verify that what she thinks is true actually happened!
OTOOH, we are getting essentially the same story from multiple warring sources.
OTOOH, planting a story to multiple sources is a known disinformation technique.
OTOOOH, we do know the NSA has the technological capability of doing precisely this, and we do know that the left regards 1984 as a manual, not a cautionary tale.
I think we are in agreement. I am not rejecting anything out of hand, other than those who would believe these sources out of hand.
I wonder if we will ever know the truth.