While the FBI still has much to answer in its choice of a heavily armed, riot-gear raid for its arrest of political fixer Roger Stone, it now appears to me less likely that it, or special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, leaked news of the arrest in advance to CNN.

Last Thursday, I wrote that Stone’s lawyer Grant J. Smith had produced “compelling evidence” that CNN’s presence at Stone’s house resulted from a law enforcement leak. The evidence was that, as the raid was still occurring, CNN sent Smith a draft indictment, one not yet filed with the court, which had been created a full day before. This indeed looked odd: Usually, one would expect the actual, court-approved indictment, not a draft one, to be released to the media. And for CNN to have any version of the indictment at all, as the raid was still taking place, would indicate that CNN had a law enforcement source.