[Naritai]

All he needs to do to 'copy thousands of documents' is not wipe his hard drive on his way out. Any of us have thousands of 'documents' next to us at all times.

If anything, the fact that Carmack's statements (in this article) focus not on denying anything, but rather focusing on how what he did was ok, it's likely that many (and at very least a core) of the accusations are true. This is referred to as an affirmative defense.

[taneq]

The allegation about copied documents is only one line in TFA, with no context. It's highly likely that the quotes from Carmack are him replying to a different question than "did you steal files?"