[JumpCrisscross]

The CIA director requested the FBI intervene. This is almost certainly not a fuckup.

[esseph]

This could also be internal politics intentional designed to burn someone for pissing off the wrong people. That shit happens.

[mmooss]

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.