I know more than a few FBI agents. Even known some SAIC's.
My first reaction is that the agent needs to have his azz kicked for releasing any information on an ongoing FBI investigation.
My second reaction is that I know of no agent of any kind that would go out on such a limb. They are ALL very sharp and very well educated people. Doing something like this especially since it leapfrogs over the chain of command is suicide to a field agent or even an SAIC.
Either the agent is not as smart as the ones I know or there is something pretty weird happening. This is all VERY strange.
This “agent” may *not* be a Special Agent of the F.B.I. Some employees of the F.B.I. have become careless with how they address people and describe their duties as employees of the F.B.I.
Several of them are assistants to Special Agents, and I had to question one such assistant, reminding her of that, when she called somebody and insisted on saying, “This is the F.B.I., and we have some questions for you.”
As you know, there is a precise series of steps by which a Special Agent *must* identify his or her self. The movies and TV shows generally are terrible at portraying that moment.
Some *assistants* seem to have gotten their “license” from such media.