Rue Callahan's piece published on a Thursday.
It was, as she had promised, a systemic story. The headline was not about me — it was about the governance gap. The subheading was about the specific failure of pack financial oversight that had allowed a northern corridor network to operate for decades. The photographs were of documents, not people. The pull quotes were the ones she had written down.
*The prosecution is justice for what happened. The reform is prevention of what happens next.*
*The record was wrong and I am constitutionally incapable of leaving a wrong record uncorrected.*
I read those lines in print and they looked exactly like what they were: accurate. Nothing inflated, nothing reduced. Just what I had said, in the context in which I had said it.
By noon the piece had b
