The Times Op-Ed is an outright plea for impeachment from an official within the Administration. The primary criticism of it should be that that author should not have been coy about that. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html …
When someone pulls a fire alarm, you need to focus on the question of whether there is a fire. If there is a fire, nothing else about the identity of the person pulling the alarm matters. This guy, this anonymous right wing A hole, is pulling the fire alarm on the presidency.