CapitolExposed is a public-interest reporting project focused on Congress, with Washington state records published in a separate state section. This page explains how evidence is handled before it appears on the site.
Published claims should trace back to official filings, government databases, court records, company filings, or clearly identified primary-source material.
No investigation, dossier, or article is intended for public release without a human editor reviewing the framing, evidence chain, and wording.
Conflict scores, timing overlaps, and cross-reference matches indicate patterns in public data. They are not accusations of illegality or proof of insider trading.
Material corrections should be noted on the affected page, not quietly overwritten. Source-data issues and editorial errors are documented distinctly.
CapitolExposed does not treat suspicious timing, donor overlap, committee overlap, or lobbying overlap as proof of wrongdoing. Those signals are used to prioritize scrutiny and make public-record patterns easier to inspect.
Investigations should avoid overstating certainty, especially when dealing with common-name matches, entity-resolution ambiguity, or incomplete source records. When uncertainty remains, the page should say so directly.