The Forbidden Stories consortium dropped fresh Pegasus revelations today: a Moroccan intelligence insider and new forensics showing Rabat ran the Israeli spyware against journalists, human rights defenders, Spanish officials — and French ministers, reportedly including Sébastien Lecornu, France's current prime minister. The timing was exquisite. Lecornu spent this very day in Rabat, warming up Franco-Moroccan relations. * Here's the Guardian, a consortium veteran, headlining the material: "Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software." Subject: the insider. Verb: reveals. Object: Morocco's hacking. You know — the news. * Now France 24, owned by the same French state whose prime minister was mid-handshake: "France explored Pegasus spyware deal despite Morocco espionage claims." Read that twice. The active subject is France, and its offense is window-shopping in 2019 for spyware it never bought. Morocco's actual espionage — the reason any of this is a story — has been demoted to a subordinate clause wearing an "allegedly." * The standfirst keeps the bubble wrap coming: "according to media investigations," "the report claims," and then the closer — "Morocco has denied the spying allegations." Forensic traces and an insider from the agency itself get "claims." The denial gets the last word. * Even France 24's straighter news piece went with "Rabat faces allegations of spying on Paris." Faces allegations — the diplomatic passive where an intelligence operation becomes something that politely happens to its perpetrator. * And here's the clever part: "France once considered buying Pegasus" reads as brave self-criticism. State broadcaster, dinging its own government! Except of the two embarrassments on offer today, that's by far the safer one — it's seven years old, it ends with Macron saying no, and it doesn't point at the palace whose hand the prime minister was shaking that afternoon. * France 24's own press-review show accidentally wrote the honest headline: "New Pegasus spyware revelations as French PM visits Morocco." That's the story. It just ran as a summary of what other people's newspapers were printing. * When a state broadcaster must choose between embarrassing its government a little and embarrassing its government's host a lot, "a little" wins every time — and gets dressed up as fearlessness on the way out.