Washington Sep 11 (IANS) The White House has said that it was not considering lie detector tests to identify the senior official who wrote an anonymous New York Times op-ed depicting a "resistance" inside President Donald Trumps administration.
The statement delivered by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a briefing to reporters on Monday contrasts with Vice President Mike Pence s offer on Sunday to submit to a polygraph as part of an effort to identify the writer reports Politico news.
"The White House and the staff here are focused on doing our jobs " Sanders said.
On September 7 Trump urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to help find the author of the op-ed which described chaos in the White House and a "resistance" by Cabinet secretaries and others to thwart some of the President s impulsive actions.
Trump has fumed publicly about the column since it was published on September 6 calling the writer "gutless" and saying the anonymous essay amounted to "treason".
White House officials are trying to determine the identity of the senior administration official who wrote the piece a person who Trump said he believes is probably someone not "very high up".
Pence a number of top Cabinet officials and other high-level appointees have all denied being the author.

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