Originally Posted by Machinbird
Well, seems to me that when various facts of the case become public knowledge, it becomes very hard to doctor them to suit an agenda.
Erm, that is true. However, are there unintended side effects such as premature finger pointing?
If the data gets altered those altering it face a problem. Secrets are not normally very well held, especially in this age of Wikileaks. There are enough people watching the physical hardware containing the data and the extraction of the data that pushing out forged data will be a very high risk behavior.