The questions, Chair, that we put to employees were intended to canvass all possibilities about what may have happened. We included among those possibilities inappropriate handling of the hard drive.
That was in no way intended to suggest that we would find that behaviour acceptable. Indeed, the questions were not intended to assume anything about what had happened. We were simply being exhaustive in our questioning of employees to elicit any information we could about what had happened.
Our priority in that situation was to recover the asset and the information that it contained. That was the purpose of questioning. In no way does it imply that we would regard any such behaviour as acceptable.