To me, the cops weren't looking to necessarily remove information from the offices.. the building would've contained vast quantities of paper and hard drives. I believe they were interested in obtaining Barry's Blackberry, his desktop computer at work, and I forget what else. They could have immediately agreed to allow investigators/detectives, or just one, or just two investigators, to look into those devices while in the Apo building, while under the watchful eye of trusted staff, with perhaps stipulations put in place that there would be no photography without a lawyer and a trusted staff's permissions, etc. It would have taken many moons to read through paperwork such as patent info, pending lawsuits, and etc. They likely were more interested in simply seeing who were the last people that B communicated with, and what time was it, and what were the last communications with people closest to Barry, and was any GPS/cellphone data available, and look into more personal information.... at least at the very beginning of the investigation (they start with the most intimate parties and work out from there, right?).. and then if there turned out to be nothing there, it may have become a deeper dive into the less likely chance this was a corporate thing... imho.
Can you imagine if the people calling the shots as far as permissions to access Barry's phone and computer, were the same people wanting to hide something of a personal nature that perhaps investigators would've been interested in knowing and following up on? And those people made a to-do about it, under the guise of corporate secrets? When everything comes to light later, hopefully in a court of law, it will be interesting to know who was the chief instigator of those measures. Personally, with the support seemingly generated by the entire company, or people wanting it to appear that way, it seemed that it would've been more important to allow investigators to quickly cut to the chase to get leads on the case to find out what happened, rather than spending a month figuring out how to protect corporate privacy from a couple of detectives/forensic IT specialists.
I personally find it unbelievable to consider that any kind of a corporate assassination would have been carried out in this particular manner. Although it apparently/ supposedly took police six weeks to determine this was a double homicide, it seems it was only a matter of two weeks (max) for them to determine that, after they were allowed to start examining B's devices, and following up with people about whatever they may have found, etc. I wonder how much evidence disappeared in that one-month period, which can never be recouped? ie even in talking to people, memories fade with time, or things perhaps might change after people have a month to think about what to say, or deals could've been made to keep certain things quiet, etc. To me, it's kind of like cops rushing in to a potential crimescene looking for weapons, and they might happen to see a bunch of pot plants or something that they're really not interested in, in that instance. jmo.
