Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Crash retrievals were barely part of any public conversation in 2017. Congress was not investigating them. The New York Times was not looking. Most Americans had never heard the phrase.

So why did a managed disclosure strategy appear necessary that year? Richard Dolan asks what could have created that urgency, and whether an internal struggle we have not yet seen explains the timing better than a simple disclosure or disinformation story.

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