A contested claim that the man arrested for a bombing gave a false confession and was wrongly targeted — bad news for the FBI's handling of the case if true.

• Brian Culter Jr., an autistic Black man, allegedly confessed to the bombing five days after a different suspect, a Capitol police officer, was publicly named.
• The confession is called into doubt because autistic people give false confessions at unusually high rates.
• He was questioned for two hours with no lawyer present, then arrested a month later.
• Sources say nobody in the White House pushed for or backed the arrest, and no one there has spoken about it publicly.

Outlook: Expect more pressure on the FBI to explain how the suspect was identified and why the confession was accepted.