Tier 1
Public Sources Only
Legal, ethical collection. No invasive work. The Archives beat a thread.
Primary pages: founding documents, statutes, CRS, agency records. Wikipedia is a pointer, never a citation.
Tier 1
Rebuild the Timeline
What was known when still changes the judgment.
Chronark™: sequence first. A later leak does not prove a contemporaneous plot. Date the file before you date the motive.
Tier 2
Open the Record
Exact URL. Who holds it. What it confirms. If you cannot open it, do not cite it.
The Sources page is the method: fetched links, named holders, stated limits. Doctrine stays doctrine.