I'd want the opportunity for a clean slate. An amnesty; I can tell you about the state of the project, processes, team, anything and everything, and then I'm of

I'd want the opportunity for a clean slate. An amnesty; I can tell you about the state of the project, processes, team, anything and everything, and then I'm off the hook and doing something about it (or not) is your problem, thank you very much. You can only do this once, and you can only do this at the start of your tenure. It's in your interests to do it, lest you find in six months that your legs were shot out from under you by the previous administration and you didn't even know it.