Attribution correction: a commitment quoted in Issue No. 45 comes from a directive's implementation guidance, not from the directive

Every record in this file was ratified by the publisher on 2026-11-12 and is in force. The declared field gives the date the correction was first recorded.

id

CHQ-CORR-2026-026

class

CORRECTION

subtype

editorial

status

IN FORCE

authority

DM ratified 2026-11-12

effective

2026-11-12

published

2026-11-12

title

Attribution correction: a commitment quoted in Issue No. 45 comes from a directive's implementation guidance, not from the directive

what was wrong

Draft text of Issue No. 45 attributed to a federal directive a commitment that the agency will always provide enrichment data for an identifier listed in its exploited catalog. CHQ had not read the directive first hand. The sentence came from the directive's implementation guidance, read on 31 October through a text-extraction route with no copy kept.

what is true

The sentence is in the implementation guidance, on a page that states it was updated on 25 August 2026. On 3 November the page was retrieved by a route outside the collection environment and its main content retained; the sentence appears there as CHQ had recorded it.

what changed

Both editions of Issue No. 45 attribute the sentence to the implementation guidance, and the retained copy is cited.

what did not change

No count, rating, Outlook or Watch. The issue's finding rests on retained responses from the enrichment source and is unaffected.

control analysis

The attribution was carried from an analysis note into issue text without a check of which document held the sentence. A factual consistency review before send caught it. Retention at the time of reading would have prevented the gap.

found by

An external review of the draft issue.