It can both be true that models at Fable capability level are national security concerns while Anthropic is being hypocritical.
If the Trump admin is also willing to apply the same scrutiny to GPT-5.6 and other Fable-level models, I think it is a good thing. But given the admin's history with Anthropic (such as declaring it a supply chain risk while ignoring Chinese labs), there is some smell of targeting.
I'm not saying they're hypocritical. I'm saying that this would be far less likely to have happened had they not advertised its power by bringing up its danger.
Except they can't - mostly because Sam Altman is savvy enough to not shout from the rooftops the national security implications. The government can't regulate models because models are unmeasurable right now. And whatever test USG can create can be benchmaxxed in reverse eventually.
So at some point - don't say your model is capable of hacking even if it is and you are clean.
If the Trump admin is also willing to apply the same scrutiny to GPT-5.6 and other Fable-level models, I think it is a good thing. But given the admin's history with Anthropic (such as declaring it a supply chain risk while ignoring Chinese labs), there is some smell of targeting.