............ when it suits you ..........
More a case of not trusting the messenger, regardless of the message. Exempli Gratia: the £100m "warchest" stories. Nice as they sounded, didn't believe a word of them.
And just like this story it's 100% "speculation" over how person A is "understood to be x" and person B is "said to be y". If it's accurate, fine, I'm just not putting stock in it until the dust settles.