BH0s security chief, cauterizing the records to protect 0.
I doubt those three guys were trying to write (as they know they’d get caught): they were trying to read.
One of them ended up dead.
The burglars may have stolen typed/inked original forms (from the early to mid ‘60s), as I don’t think the Federal Government was very much computerized by then, but as you say about backups, there might have been microfilm copies in that decade. Our republic may depend on it.
If the Supreme Court had done their job (they probably knew the facts - Roberts and 0bama both fouled up the oath) and stopped this before 0bama was sworn in, we’d simply have Biden as interim President, and a new election, if I’ve understood things correctly. There’d be no succession chain followed. But, I can imagine why they didn’t. 0bama had a tsunami of aggressive support at that time.
I didn’t know about the witness’ death.