User blog comment:Samuelshadow16/Ironwood's REAL purpose/@comment-15586611-20140817154737

Once again, I feel that the problem is that we just don't know enough yet, but some theory seems so good that people don't stop to think of alternatives. For example, it might be that someone else high up in the Atlas military/R&D is a traitor, and could at least set things up so Cinder was able to steal them with stealth. We're all focused on Ironwood becuase He's the only named character with such a position at the moment, but only in the smallest of organizations is it even possible for whoever's in charge to know and keep track of every little thing. I'm not saying this is the case, but it's an equally likely explanation at the moment that I managed to come up with off the top of my head.

The point is that we we shouldn't think up of just ONE explanation for something and then stop.