More: The Bulwark's Will Sommer published a report on the story Monday night, writing:

"In Pounds's portentous telling, an unnamed official"soon after revealed to be Sarah B. Rogers, the undersecretary for public diplomacy at the State Department"had offered to leak her government documents about Cuba to publish as an exclusive.' While Pounds was initially enthusiastic, markings on the documents prompted her to panic that she was being set up. Had she published the documents, Pounds felt, she would've exposed herself to criminal prosecution. She took the news of her supposed entrapment directly to her audience."

But Rogers explained the markups that had Pounds thinking she was being set up.

"The markings' are FOIA redactions required even for voluntary disclosure," Rogers wrote to Pounds on X. "To prove this isn't a trap,' I will happily disclose the documents myself."

The entire situation, in Sommer's view, "highlights a real problem facing the Trump administration: a lack of talented media figures who can handle even the basic function of laundering the administration's message."