They should ask for the back-ups too, as some enterprising commie has certainly erased those on the system.
Yes, given the amount of illegal activity that appears to have taken place, I would assume the machine logs were wiped, or “corrected” somehow to cover up the illicit activity, quickly after the desired output was recorded.
These criminals have no desire to follow rules, much less the law. It’s more about what they can get away with, with their partners in law, politics, and the media, using “plausible deniability.”