The telescopes are pretty straightforward, their hardware (reaction wheels, chips) has a limited lifespan in space, and some of the redundancies are now starting to fail entirely. They're mostly just getting old and need replacements (new satellites) with better tech.

However, you don't evacuate facilities and stay hush-hush because of child porn, in that case you're arresting people and taking disk drives for evidence in the FBI proceedings, but not much else. But it seems to be a favorite excuse right now to get people to just go into NPC-mode and stop asking questions, eventually forget.