Re: Something not ringing true here ...
I suppose one possibility is that the drive could not be read when powered down, and needed a machine to access it. That machine, in turn, could identify that a lot of data was being accessed rather than a standard use, and locked down. That's the most logical option I can think of right now. Maybe they were able to get data from a running machine which timed out as well, denying further access to the drives. Either way, this ambiguity doesn't seem very related for the reasons not to extradite.
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