Sources
What Silent Dossier draws from
Articles are built from primary and official documents wherever possible: statutes, official transcripts, court orders and opinions, and other government records obtained directly from the issuing institution -- for example the National Archives, the Federal Register, or a court's own published opinions.
Verification before use
A document is not usable simply because it has a public URL. Before any source is used in an article, its identity, exact origin, acquisition method, content hash, and rights basis are recorded and reviewed. Only the verified public-domain portion of a document is used -- third-party commentary, annotation, translation, or imagery layered on top of a public-domain text is excluded unless it has separately cleared the same review.
Rights and attribution
Silent Dossier uses two classes of source material: verified public-domain government works, and wholly synthetic material used for internal testing and never presented as real. Copyrighted third-party articles, subscription content, leaked documents, confidential sources, and material of unknown rights status are not used. Attribution to the issuing institution is retained even where not strictly required, because transparent provenance is part of how each source is verified.
The articles built from these sources are prepared with AI assistance, and final editorial approval of every article is always a separate, human decision.
Author of record: Silent Dossier Editorial Desk.