Exactly what I said already. To draw them out and find out where they took magic things.

[he'd thought it was a pretty clear chain of causality: the government officials were getting much more suspicious of the coven, and simultaneously sharing no information no matter how alarming things got, so the only way to escalate things such that they had a chance to shake out favorably for the coven was if the coven pushed the envelope first. not a universally popular idea, based on all the coven members who yelled at them about it, but possible to follow.]