The Trump administration's Anthropic ban was structurally fragile the moment Claude Mythos demonstrated an ability to find software vulnerabilities that human researchers had missed. Security agencies do not defer executive-branch vendor restrictions when the operational case is this direct. The NSA's decision to proceed — beginning use two weeks after Amodei's White House exit — is not a rogue act; it is the institutional logic of national-security procurement revealing itself under pressure. What the ACM's argument that a …