[House Atreides]

“...the manager of the Waco Don Carlos is no longer in possession of the hard drives containing the surveillance because Waco police officials took them as part of their ongoing investigation....”
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Right...those hard drives are really safe in the “state's” hands. No risk whatsoever of any of the (inconvenient -- from the state's perspective) contents being compromised, corrupted, lost or deleted.

[PA Engineer]

Right...those hard drives are really safe in the “state's” hands. No risk whatsoever of any of the (inconvenient -- from the state's perspective) contents being compromised, corrupted, lost or deleted.

Exactly. In after the plants.

[Sherman Logan]

Would seem to be the only argument needed.

“We don’t have them anymore, the cops took them.”

The argument that providing the video would burden the restaurant’s managers is really stupid. They’re interested in basically at most a couple of hours, with the exact time well known.

[muglywump]

“Right...those hard drives are really safe in the “state’s” hands. No risk whatsoever of any of the (inconvenient — from the state’s perspective) contents being compromised, corrupted, lost or deleted.”

A la Lois Lerner.