Yes, their job was to cover up, not investigate. If they never looked at the laptop, they can truthfully say they never found anything to investigate in the laptop. They let the questioner assume that they looked at the laptop and found nothing.
It's all about leverage and blackmail, never about prosecution. If you prosecute you have to get the facts out in the open. If you do that, you cannot use them for blackmail.
This is a highly underrated comment.
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