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How the coverage framed it

The roughly two-point spread across outlets reflects a modest but meaningful framing divergence. The Guardian anchors its headline in a specific legal actor — "Ex-CIA director John Brennan subpoenaed" — centering the story on a named individual facing legal process, which scorers noted carries a mild left-leaning tendency by foregrounding someone viewed sympathetically in those circles. Politico, by contrast, leads with prosecutorial agency and broader purpose: "Prosecutor details ongoing 'grand conspiracy' probe into Trump's enemies." The phrase "Trump's enemies" is the key right-coded signal, implicitly validating the premise that opponents constitute a coherent adversarial group subject to legitimate scrutiny. Where The Guardian's language is procedurally specific and person-focused, Politico's framing is more expansive and ideologically suggestive, lending the investigation a narrative weight that aligns more closely with how Trump's political allies tend to characterize it.