It’s almost certainly grift. If it were official, the arrest would have been scrubbed.

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.

	▲	mmooss an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.