It would have been easy to delay a task that seemed unimportant.

“Do we know where he meant to take them?” I asked.

“That’s part of the investigation.”

He did not provide a route or explain how someone might use the documents.

There was nothing I needed to do with that information except understand why the preparations were being taken seriously.

The bags were evidence of preparation.

They did not prove every imagined destination or intention.

Together with the other records and statements, they helped investigators assess the threat and the sequence of events.