Fair point but a footnote given the amount of fall-out, that's on them and they'll have to retract that. Effectively they already did.

If they retract that, they open themselves to potential, personal, legal liability which is enough to scare any director. But if they don't retract, they aren't getting Altman back. Thus why the board likely finds themselves between a rock and a hard place.

Exactly. If they're not scared by now it is simply because they don't understand the potential consequences of what they've done.