You don’t need an articulable basis as long as you can force compliance with your desires. (Pretty much sums up recent government strategy...)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/28/judge-blocks-pentagon-blacklist--anthropic-.html

Judge blocks Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic as supply chain risk

A San Francisco federal judge on Thursday ruled that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of artificial intelligence giant Anthropic earlier this year was illegal.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin found that the Department of Defense violated the First Amendment by designating Anthropic a supply chain risk “based on a desire to make a public example” out of the company. Lin wrote that while the government is owed deference on matters of national security, its actions were not founded on any “articulable basis.”