Evidence-faithful accounts of contested cases.
The Brief is an investigative synthesis engine. Every Brief names what's established, what's strongly suggested, and what can't be known — in that order.
What the public record supports as fact — institutional findings, documented evidence, completed proceedings — weighted by who produced it and whether it can be independently corroborated.
A reading the evidence supports without proving — named carefully, framed institutionally, with the formulation The Brief uses on every applicable case: cannot be proven, cannot be dismissed.
The questions the synthesis cannot answer and why — named explicitly. A Brief without this section is a failed Brief.
The Death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed
Paris, 31 August 1997
A closed historical event whose every formal investigation was conducted by the candidate organised power or its close ally — and the structural problem that creates.
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Beirut, 4 August 2020
A documented seven-year retention of ammonium nitrate, a state that did not act, and a post-event obstruction pattern formally recognised by a Lebanese court.
The Carlos Ghosn Case
Tokyo and Beirut, 2018–present
A two-phase case: a contested takedown anchored in immunity-deal cooperator testimony, and an operationally documented escape.
The Assassination of Marielle Franco
Rio de Janeiro, 14 March 2018
A councillor executed by former police, with Brazil’s Supreme Court convicting the militia-linked masterminds in 2026 — and a militia-state system the conviction illuminates but does not exhaust.
The Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia
Malta, 16 October 2017
An investigative journalist killed by a car bomb, the hitmen and a businessman charged, and a public inquiry finding the state created a climate of impunity that enabled the murder.
The Murder of Berta Cáceres
Honduras, 2 March 2016
An Indigenous land defender killed after her campaign against a dam — hitmen and a company executive convicted, with the state-corporate structure behind the killing documented but not exhausted.
Monsanto, Glyphosate, and the Manipulation of the Scientific Record
United States, 2000–2025
A ghostwritten safety study, a cultivated regulator, and a coordinated campaign against an adverse finding — corporate manipulation of the science established, the underlying cancer question left open.