How we correct a finding we got wrong

What happens when you report an error

1. 01

   Anyone can report an error. You do not have to be the client who commissioned the work, and we read reports from people checking our arithmetic against the primary source.

2. 02

   We answer every report, and the answer says whether we are amending the finding, disputing it, or still checking.

3. 03

   An amendment lands on the original URL with the date, the previous wording, and a plain statement of what changed. The wording we published stays readable, because a reader who cited it needs to see what they cited.

4. 04

   A signed report cannot be edited without breaking its signature, which is the reason the signature is worth having. A correction to a signed finding is a new signed record naming the one it supersedes, and both stay listed on this page.

5. 05

   Where a correction changes a conclusion a client acted on, that client hears it in writing as well as reading it here.

Corrections issued

No corrections issued to date. This page publishes before it is needed, because a corrections policy that appears after the first mistake is worth less than one a reader could have checked beforehand.

Every published report carries a corrections section of its own. An amendment appears on the report and in the log above, so a citation resolves to the current wording and to the record of what changed.

The published reports are in the Intelligence Log archive, and the rules this page follows from are on about and independence.