Even when negotiating with political extremists, neither human nor corporate sacrifices are legal. There will be no justifiable reason for the sweep in the hidden docs, other than them actually believing it was a death spiral. And that is not justifiable either really. They are hiding them for a reason.
There are many things that can derail justice here, but this hypothesis is just not even close to being one of them.
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