About

Mission

INSIDE THE THREAT documents insider cases from the record outward. We read the indictments, plea agreements, judgments, inspector general reports and FBI files, and we report what they show about the person in the seat: what that person could reach, what they did with it, and which control would have caught it. We do not run stings, we do not edit material to deceive, we do not entrap anyone, and we do not publish what we cannot source. Every case file cites public records, and any press source is labeled secondary, every correction is logged in the open, and every case file states its legal status as of the day we checked it. We name the institutions that failed, and we put the people who refused to be recruited on the record next to the people who were. The public interest is served by the truth told carefully, not by the loudest version of it.

The three actors, and the fourth file

These labels are our editorial classification, not legal findings. A court decides guilt. We decide which file a case belongs in, and every story says why.

Method

1. Primary sources first. Court filings, DOJ, U.S. Attorney and FBI releases, inspector general reports, congressional committee reports and official clemency records. Press coverage is used only when we cannot avoid it, and then it is labeled secondary.
2. Case files, not dramatizations. Stories are written as dossiers: lede, fact rail, sourced timeline, document drawer and an analysis of what would have stopped it. There is no invented dialogue and no imagined scenes. If we ever publish a reconstruction, it carries a RECONSTRUCTION banner at the top, footnotes every factual line, and puts the dramatized material in italics.
3. Quotes are checked word for word against the source text before publication.
4. Status is dated. Legal status changes through appeals, remands, resentencings and pardons. Each case file shows the status, the date we checked it and the document that supports it.
5. People not charged are not named. When the government uses "Company-1" or "a multinational technology company," so do we. Victims are not named unless the record names them and the naming serves the story.
6. Archives. At publication, each source gets a Wayback Machine snapshot, linked next to the original wherever one exists.
7. Images are honest. Cover photographs are illustrative unless marked EVIDENCE. No photograph of an identifiable real person stands in for a defendant. Image licenses are listed in the credits file.

Legal-status labels

Membership and access

• What anyone can read without an account: the cover, the header, the legal-status box, the fact rail, the start of the timeline and about the first 60 percent of every story. Source lists are never gated. A claim you cannot check is not worth publishing.
• What signing in unlocks: the rest of the story, the full sourced timeline, the document drawer with links to the original filings, the "What would have stopped it" analysis and the related case files.
• What it costs: nothing. Membership is free. An account lets us keep the site sustainable and lets members follow cases as their status changes. There is no paid tier.
• How sign-in works: Membership is free. Create an account with your email and a password, or continue with Google or X. There is no paid tier. We do not sell the address, share it, or use it for advertising.

Terms of use, in plain language

1. Read, cite and link freely. Quote short passages with attribution and a link.
2. Do not republish whole stories or our original graphics without written permission.
3. Court records and U.S. government documents are public. Our summaries and analysis are ours. Third-party images carry their own licenses, listed in the credits.
4. Nothing here is legal advice, and nothing here is an accusation beyond what the cited record states.
5. Do not use this site to harass anyone named in it. Named defendants have served, are serving or are contesting sentences, and their legal status is shown for that reason.
6. One account per person. Accounts used for scraping or abuse may be closed.

These terms are a working draft until the owner approves them.

Privacy

• Account: when you create an account we store your email address and display name (or the basic profile Google or X shares with us if you use them), a hashed password if you use email and password, and a session cookie that keeps you signed in. We do not sell or share this data, we do not run ad trackers, and you can ask for your account to be deleted at [email protected].
• Do not send us classified or protected information. We do not want it, we will not publish it, and sending it may be a crime. Send public records, docket numbers and corrections.

Corrections

We correct errors of fact openly. A corrected story carries a dated note that says what changed, and every correction is entered in the public corrections log. A correction is never silent, and a case file is never quietly deleted. When a legal status changes, the status box shows the new date and source.

To report an error, send the page, the claim and the primary record that contradicts it.

Corrections log (pre-publication fact-check, Oct 2026)

Contact

Editorial and corrections: [email protected] Rights and permissions: [email protected]

Editor-in-chief: LastPsyOp.

Updated 2026-10-20