The Questions Nobody Asked
Two assassination attempts on the same political figure. Two investigations. Zero prosecuted co-conspirators. One very tidy official narrative.
Kai Morita spent three years pulling on the threads the Terran Intelligence Bureau apparently didn’t notice — or noticed and set down carefully — and the result is Plots Against the Chairman: What the Investigations Missed and Why It Matters, out now from Frontier Transmission Press.
I talked to him for two hours. I’m giving you the version that fits in a transmission window.
The first attempt, Kepler Station, 2933. Official verdict: lone disturbed individual, no further connections. You disagree.
Morita: Strongly. The shooter had comm records with three individuals who have documented ties to Solar Defense Compact auxiliary intelligence operations. The TIB interviewed zero of them. Zero. They closed the file in eleven days.
Eleven days.
For a sitting chairman. And nobody laughed?
The second attempt, six months later, different method, different location. The TIB called it ‘unrelated.’
Morita: Two separate actors, no coordination, targeting the same man within the same political cycle, and the official position is: coincidence. They said this with a straight face at a press conference. I have the transcript. I’ll wait.
The second incident is actually worse from an investigative standpoint because there was a documented evidence gap — forty-seven minutes of surveillance footage from the corridor outside the staging area that the TIB described as a ‘recording malfunction.’
The equipment involved was manufactured by a subsidiary of Nexus Processing.
Nexus Processing, if you’re keeping notes at home, holds four active Solar Defense Compact data contracts worth a combined 900 million Standard Galactic Credits.
I’m not saying it’s a grift. I’m just reading the contract records aloud.
Your book argues the investigations weren’t incompetent. They were shaped.
Morita: Incompetence would be random. This was consistent. Every time an investigative thread pointed toward someone with institutional connections — SDC adjacency, contractor relationships, internal Council faction ties — that thread stopped. Not slowly. Immediately.
The investigators were competent enough to find the threads. They were professionally disciplined enough not to pull them.
That’s not failure. That’s craft.
The TIB issued a statement calling your book ‘speculative and irresponsible.’
Morita: They sent it before the book published. Before they could have read it.
Wait, it gets better.
The statement was pre-dated. Their comms team transmitted it twelve hours before the book appeared on Frontier Transmission Press. I have the timestamp. I’ve published it. They’ve blocked me on every official neural feed channel.
[Editor’s note: He screenshots them proudly. He showed us seven.]
What do you want from this?
Morita: I want someone with subpoena authority to ask the forty-three questions in the appendix of my book. I’ve numbered them. I’ve sourced every single one. I’ve made it as easy as possible.
I don’t expect it to happen. But I want the fact of the non-answer on the record. Because the non-answer is also information.
The Terran Intelligence Bureau did not respond to our request for comment by transmission deadline.
They did, however, block this publication’s official neural feed account.
We’ve screenshotted it.
Anyway.
Plots Against the Chairman: What the Investigations Missed and Why It Matters is available now through Frontier Transmission Press, 34 SGC, DRM-free.*