Typically there are photos of the drug seizure.

even when vice is covering it up? there are nuances everywhere. if you don't trust the reporters/editors to be accountable, the whole system of news reporting falls apart

Except one of those is, you know, illegal...

Imagine that the boards actually do exist, and represent an espionage by a foreign government. Why would the company not immediately hand it over to the FBI/CIA, and immediately be forced to sign an NDA?

It would most certainly be illegal.