I'd be interested to know what people were expecting from MIT (and would also like a public statement).

The dockets (1) suggest MIT made the poor (perhaps incidental?) decision to involve the Secret Service, at which point the evidence became part of a federal investigation.

I think the paragraph about MIT's "tepid" interest in the investigation is telling.

(1) http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N46/swartz/swartz-suppress1.pdf http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N46/swartz/swartz-suppress2.pdf