Theme
Audits.
The method applied to real cases.
The Rhetoric of Preemption — Operation Epic Fury, audited
The rhetorical architecture managing the gap between the stated justifications for Operation Epic Fury and the documented evidentiary record — audited symmetrically across all eight actors: the administration, Israel, Iran, congressional Democrats and Republicans, NATO, the Gulf states, and China. Not the war's wisdom. The discourse object that manages its justification.
Jerome Powell's 'transitory' inflation framing (April–December 2021) — a modality-shift audit
Powell's 'transitory' inflation framing across five 2021 FOMC press conferences, audited as a modality shift under SAF v3.1 Council discipline. Four transformation steps from April baseline through November definitional retreat to December past-tense reframing, with per-statement Admiralty grading. The *why* (forecast-tracking vs. communication-choice) filed as an open hypothesis pair pending Fed archival release. Records evidentiary grades, open hypotheses, and the limits of analysis.
Race-Based Politics — the bipartisan discourse object, audited
The use of racial framing as a political instrument across the full ideological spectrum — progressive, conservative, centrist, corporate — audited as a coordinated discourse object. Not race. Not racial inequality. The machinery that routinely captures both.
The eight-second attention span — a discourse object, audited
The eight-second attention-span claim — shorter than a goldfish's nine — audited as a propagation chain under SAF discipline. The chain terminates at a content-mill aggregator; the figures predate the Microsoft Canada report by 15 months; and that Microsoft report contradicts itself, with page 6's slide refuted by primary EEG data on pages 20-22. Three failure modes — provenance collapse, construct conflation, and internal contradiction — each demolish the claim under charity.
Hillsborough — the institutional case against Liverpool fans, audited
The 1989 fan-blame narrative — drunk, ticketless, late, gate-storming — treated as an evidence apparatus and audited under SAF discipline. Source quality, contradictions against the public record, propagation through the press and Parliament, and what survives charitable interpretation before reaching a verdict.
Ofcom's fraud risk profile — a citation provenance audit at the verification floor
Section 11 of Ofcom's Register of Risks (16 December 2024), the fraud and financial services profile, audited as a citation provenance object. 15 load-bearing citations were sampled from 140 footnotes; 4 were primary-source verified. Per-citation Admiralty grading surfaces one citation with three structural distortions (qualifier-, scope-, and chain-dropping). The audit also documents a ~25–30% verification floor for AI-augmented audits of regulator documents without institutional access.