Ren found the person inside on a Wednesday.
Not through Lena's communication records. Those had named the removal but not the identity beyond an internal designation code. Ren had taken the designation code and run it through the federal contractor compliance database — the same academic access channel he had used to find the cached audit three years ago.
The designation code matched a compliance record for a contractor employee who had been removed from operational status fourteen months ago following an internal review. The record listed the removal as voluntary resignation under review. The attached notes — accessible because the record had been cached in the academic system before the contractor program's records were reclassified — described the reason.
Concerns regarding targeting
