http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...ns-bradys-refusal-to-provide-texts-and-email/
"Perhaps the most glaring problem for Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady in the Wells report comes not from anything Brady said but from the things he didn’t say.
Specifically, his decision to refuse to provide his text messages and emails constitutes a failure to cooperate with an investigation and, per NFL rules, conduct detrimental to the league."
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/05/08/gostkowski-refused-to-cooperate-too/
For workplace investigations, the employer makes the rules. And when the employer expects cooperation, anything other than significant sanctions for failure to cooperate will invite others to refuse to cooperate.
During the various significant NFL investigations in recent years, cooperation has been consistent, and automatic. The Saints cooperated when the NFL was investigating the bounty case. The Ravens cooperated when the NFL was investigating the
Ray Rice elevator video. The Dolphins cooperated when the NFL was investigating the bullying scandal — with the exception of trainer Kevin O’Neill, who
expressed hostility to the investigation and later was fired.
Per multiple sources, Ravens employees automatically and without hesitation surrendered their cell phones for forensic examination that entailed a specific search for certain recipients and phrases. The procedure balanced the needs of the investigation with individual privacy rights.
Here, multiple individuals chose to extend their privacy rights so broadly that it interfered with their obligation to cooperate with their employer. Separate from whatever the Patriots did or didn’t do to the footballs, the failure to cooperate requires punishment, or others will do the same thing in the future.
If he's innocent what does he have to hide.