There's been a fair amount of speculation that pushing back after discovering that that had happened was what instigated this week's fun.

That would certainly make me feel more positively disposed if that credibly came to light, though I would still wonder how dumb were they to think the military wouldn’t do stuff like that

EDIT: that may be the case actually

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-claude-maduro-rai...