[nihonde]

It's clearly evidence that they anticipated a problem. I don't see any other way to spin it except that he covered himself because he knew there was a good chance he would be sued, and Uber, in its typical risk-hungry style, was willing to take the bet. Turns out it was a bad bet.

[valuearb]

Clearly they had to be concerned about a Waymo suit even if Lewandawski was completely clean. Google was always suing.