To be sure, Levinson should have gotten competent legal counsel long before this all started. (He knew he was going to have this fight eventually, but he had to

To be sure, Levinson should have gotten competent legal counsel long before this all started. (He knew he was going to have this fight eventually, but he had to scramble for a lawyer when this specific request came in.) And that counsel would have advised him exactly what he could have and should have revealed, and how to comply with previous requests. His complying with prior orders surely weakened any attempt to say "but I can't get that information!"