Let’s make sure we all understand exactly what just happened. Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service… an agency that answers to him, inside a government he runs. He then “settled” that lawsuit with himself, through his own Justice Department, led by his own acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. You know, the man who, before taking that job, was Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer. No independent court reviewed the deal. No judge signed off. The presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, noted that she had been “stripped of jurisdiction” before she could even rule on whether the lawsuit was constitutional in the first place. Trump’s own lawyers made sure of that, filing a dismissal that explicitly argued no judicial analysis was “appropriate.”

Let’s start with the logic, because the logic here is doing something genuinely spectacular. The FBI - the nation’s premier law enforcement agency, the institution entrusted with counterterrorism, organized crime, public corruption, and the full weight of federal criminal law -has deployed its insider threat unit to solve the following mystery: who told a reporter that the guy running the FBI might have a drinking problem.