What I would like to know is whether the group had a strong suspicion of what they expected to find…or was it simply a case of them stealing all the documents with a collective “well looky what we have here” when they reviewed them. If the former, then perhaps we can view this as having some honourable intent… if they had no clue of what they might find and it was all a fishing exercise, the group could be viewed as just common anti-government thugs who got lucky by finding something that was incriminating. It’s pretty hard to make anyone a hero under those circumstances, no?
Based on the reporting in the story, they were specifically looking for what they found.