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by JumpCrisscross 24 days ago
It’s almost certainly grift. If it were official, the arrest would have been scrubbed.
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sometimes i wonder if the left hand knows what the right is doing. it looks like we arrested our own spy in this case: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/25/american-journalist...
The CIA director requested the FBI intervene. This is almost certainly not a fuckup.
This could also be internal politics intentional designed to burn someone for pissing off the wrong people. That shit happens.
That's their post hoc, uncorroborated claim. It's easy to imagine many other possibilities; it could just be face saving. It could be Rush is taking the fall. etc.