We met Director Yoon on a Thursday morning, two weeks into the preliminary analysis.
The meeting was formal and procedurally necessary — an initial notification meeting, the kind that every investigation of this type required, where the oversight team notified the subject institution of the investigation's existence and scope before the evidence-gathering phase began in earnest. It was not an interrogation. It was not an arrest. It was the moment when the invisible work of the investigation became visible to the people it concerned, and it was always, in my experience, one of the most revealing moments of any case — not because of what people said in these meetings, which was usually managed, but because of what they showed despite their management.
