Not true. People obstruct all the time when trying to cover up matters that are merely embarrassing or politically damaging, but not illegal.
Obstruction is about interfering with the legal process. For example, prosecutor subpoenas records which are instead destroyed. Should it matter if ultimately the records showed no crime occurred?
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At least you can point to a subpoena in that case. But if I happen to destroy some innocuous files, and then am accused of destroying evidence of a crime, when it later turns out that there was no crime, I would hope that wouldn't count as obstruction.
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Key word is “innocuous”. Government would need to show you knew of the investigation and that the records were relevant to the investigation.
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