[ckastner]

> It is true that the FBI found the person they were looking for, and that person was the terminus of their investigation. It is not true that the article author was investigated by the FBI; he wasn't

To me, these are the same, so I guess that's probably just my layman's view then.

[kayodelycaon]

They aren’t the same. There is a legal distinction. They were attempting to identify the source of a document.

After they found and identified who created it, the investigation was dropped before they investigated any particular person.

[mixmastamyk]

That’s what the word means. If they mean convicted, they should ask that instead.