Do we seriously think that a lawyer will agree to his daughter confesseing to any crime without a deal being part of that?
So her father blocks her confession from being legally recorded as a confession.
The fact that she said it can still be used as reasonable cause to actually investigate. And there's plenty the girls have done that is basically impossible for the girls to hide. Electronic records are hilariously hard to delete when you don't have physical control of the servers they were transmitted through.
As such the actions by PRT Boston can't be seen as a continuation of this policy but we have to assume they actually take their role seriously and work under false information.
Armstrong and his top level guys have made it abundantly clear that they've been read in on the situation, so yes actually, their actions can absolutely be taken as a continuation of the ENE policy of coverup and deny. Because their actions are taken in the explicit context of knowing
exactly why their new ward has zero interest in spending a second with anyone involved in the organization. And while their subordinates haven't been read in on the full context,
they're acting on orders given by people who are. Which means that yes, their actions are also a continuation of the ENE policy of coverup and deny.
And yes there are ways to get people on the hook on an organisational level but that needs you to basically proof that the organisation itself is a criminal enterprise. And good luck proveing that for the offical goverment heores. You know the guys who bleed and die every three month for the rest of us.
Taylor doesn't give a tinker's damn about 'getting people on the hook on an organizational level' in a legal context.
Her position is very explicit in the text, regardless of whether the PRT and Protectorate are
legally responsible for her treatment, the fact that it happened at all under their watch, and more importantly that their immediate and ongoing reaction was and has been to deny, coverup, lie to her dad, snatch her out of the city, and impress her into service against her consent...all that means that whatever the law may be,
she considers them morally culpable.
And, as laid out above, she's basically right. Because so far nobody in the PRT has at any point given her any reason to believe otherwise, and we as the audience have seen explicit examples of their behavior outside their interactions with her directly that demonstrate that they either don't care about her at all, or are so utterly myopic about their position in the organization that they're incapable of processing any context in which the organization isn't the best way to solve things.
Per WoG, the PRT isn't actually breaking many or any laws here, because the law code regarding protection of minors, employees, and human rights in general are swiss cheese when it comes to parahumans in this AU. That's fair enough, and absolves the PRT and Protectorate of
criminal responsibility.
It doesn't absolve them of
common sense responsibility. Because again, as shown in this story, all their 'technically legal in this AU' shenanigans have manifestly failed to result in their desired end goal, in most cases actively making their desired end goal less achievable.
That makes them, if not criminal due to AU, at the very least explicitly incompetent.
