Navigator said:
Gandalf said:
They said during the show that they have been "soft kill". Maybe they said it during the show and if so, I missed it but why the CIA, the Mossad or any other agencies did not kill them in order to be sure that they do not tell their story?
They said too that they have been arrested many times but each time they did not have enough proofs to put them in jail. Knowing that the police can easily falsify/create proofs, how come haven't they done it so far? They must have a reason for that.
I thought about it too, maybe it has to do with the fact that they have that HD drive? I mean, if the USG goes great lengths to have them soft-killed (they spend time and resources going to that Church they mention in the interview to alert it not to help them, and maybe other places), why don't just kill them and steal the drive? (this sounds awful, I know).
As they discussed, it seems agencies would like them as assets due to their Libyan connections and ability to still get new information, from people who (understandably) won't speak to the US gov. At the same time, the Moriartys are not really seen as any significant threat, because Libya is old news. So it seems to be a kind of half-disinterested, "oh well, let's keep them around in case we can get them to turn around, but they and what they do doesn't really matter much". And together with this, the usual psychopathic kind of cat and mouse game, probably just for "fun".
As for the hard drive, since co-opted media people with intelligence connections did borrow it earlier, no doubt that information was already copied back then.