Three laptops were submitted for repair, and never picked up.
The answer, of course, is the arrogance of assumed immunity. aka..The Swamp.
You have everything wrong.
You should apply for a CNN internship. I follow sources... original reporting.
1 laptop which was copied from the damaged drive via the repair shops server to another laptop.
There were 3. Laptop 1 had the SSD integrated onto the motherboard so was turned away at the door. Laptop 2 had the keyboard ruined so a new keyboard installed and sent out the door. Laptop 3, Hunters laptop, had to have the drive which was not intergrated onto the motherboard copied over to another drive. SOP is to image the drive onto your local server and then put that image back onto another drive and put it into another laptop. That drive image is what is being worked with. It is a perfect picture of everything that was on that laptop.
Idiots who know nothing are all opining on this from mediaots to commentiots.