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

• electroglyph 6mo ago
  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-unregistered-agent-china-00935518 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/25/american-journalist...
  • JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
    The CIA director requested the FBI intervene. This is almost certainly not a fuckup.
    • mmooss 6mo ago
      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.
    • esseph 6mo ago
      This could also be internal politics intentional designed to burn someone for pissing off the wrong people. That shit happens.