A year after releasing the Egyptian Islamic Jihad’s first self-evaluation, “Advice Regarding the Conduct of Jihadist Action in Egypt and the World,” Sayyed Imam al-Sharif has produced the “Treatise on Exposing the Exoneration.” We do not know why the author called his “second debate” with al-Qaeda the “Exposure,” but it appears from our reading that the “regressive change” he presents in this piece is of lesser importance than the contents of the first self-evaluation. The first document elucidated a new foundation for “building on new traditions for a local jihadi movement,” characterized by an internally stable organization committed to changing the political system through peaceful means, not violent confrontation.