What she said

What she said:

"Dr. Denic understands that he did not fulfil his obligations under occurrence reporting and he had offered his resignation, and today we accepted that," Kaminski told reporters Wednesday.

What they reported:

Dr. Nash Denic has resigned as head of laboratory services at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority after a drug-testing fiasco in which lab officials are accused of reacting to the problem too slowly.

You see, the thing is, the use of the past perfect ("he had offered his resignation"), where an ordinary person, not trying to obfuscate the timeline, would use the simple past ("he offered his resignation") or present perfect ("he has offered his resignation") should be a big honkin' red flag to anyone who hears that unusual verb tense under the circumstances where Ms. Kaminski used it the other day. So big, so honkin', and so red, in fact, that it wouldn't have taken another news cycle to realize, and uncover the fact that:

Kaminski's wording has proven to be significant, as CBC News has learned Denic tendered his resignation in December, months before the cyclosporine issue surfaced.

Cf. the use of the passive, and of other impersonal constructions.