She pressed her lips together and didn't let anything past them, but her eyes were wet. "I'm sorry." she said. It came out rough. "I know."
he said. He turned to Patricia. "What happens now?" "Gerald Pruitt needs to not know about these communication ends before we have the expanded warrant secured." Patricia said.
"Which means we have a problem." "The internal compliance review." Evelyn said immediately. "Yes." Patricia said.
"If Pruitt is running a compliance review this morning, and if he has access to the partition drive, which he does, his credentials are on it. He may have already seen that something was accessed. The shadow copy operation last night was clean. But if his system has activity monitoring, he'll know someone was in there." Marcus said.
"Possibly, Doctor." Kim said. "We can't confirm whether his monitoring caught our access. We ran it through a federal access protocol that should have masked the signature. But I can't give you 100% certainty."
The room went quiet for a moment. Everyone was running the same calculation at different speeds. Marcus spoke first. "Then we don't wait for the expanded warrant." Patricia looked at him sharply.
"Marcus, if he knows someone accessed those files." Marcus said. "Then in the next few hours he either runs, destroys what's left, or does something worse. You said the shadow copies are secured. You have the Meridian transaction chain.
You have the approval records. You have the email communications between Pruitt and Holt. What else do you need for a federal arrest?" Patricia and Doctor Kim looked at each other. "Technically."
Doctor Kim said carefully. "What we have in the shadow copies is sufficient to support charges. The warrant expands the scope of what we can seize additionally. But as a basis for arrest then go, Marcus said. Right now.