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These emails are not even close to the whole story. If emails exist between Senator Wilkerson and Michael Kineavy they would be in the emails that the city HAS NOT turned over.
The city has actually said it will cost $250,000 to find those emails. Please try to control your laughter. This is one of the MANY reasons (what second computer?, infrequent email user, double delete or a glitch?) Secretary Galvin is not satisfied with the response from Mayor Menino.
We can all look at these emails and find what they want us to find all the while Menino tries to run the clock out on the election.
Meanwhile, Martha Coakley has a lab dedicated to this and it is not in use on this case. Our AG (I am supporting Capuano) should put politics aside, do some public service, save the taxpayers some money and get the job done.
Read her press release on the new cyber lab here
And yes I am supporting the ticket of Flaherty/Yoon because it represents a welcome change to the politics of one person who want to control everything in a city from what building entryways look like to not allowing city employees to have voice mail.
City Hall's difficulties in producing public records under subpoena for the US Attorney and under review of public records laws from the Secretary fo State, for reasons that include - how the mail system operated by backing up records at night but not in a chrono file - how the records were handled by Kineavy who seems to play an important role close to the decision making process (the mayor) in a city government alleged to be driven by patronage and potentially tainted by corruption charges against two government officials. - how Kineavy's slow PC, that was shelved and hasn't been searched forensically, is the only source of some of the public records that were double deleted before they could be recorded by nightly backup
I am surprised that
the US Attorney and Sec of State and AG have not impounded Kineavy's PC and insisted the forensic work be done within the chain of evidence by people whose competence that Commonwealth can assure such as the Attorney General's new $750,000 cyber crime lab. www.bit.ly/7Wousr - "Must include a public option" www.bit.ly/7yaoMv - Coakley shifts, backs abortion curb www.bit.ly/5f8CVb - John Kerry reporting for duty! www.bit.ly/6rJnZU - Questions for Martha Coakley on Civil Rights
We already have strong reason to suspect that possibly incriminating emails were exchanged between Mr. Kineavy and both Mr. Turner and Ms. Wilkerson. This has already been reported in connection with the criminal cases already underway. We already know that the FBI has subpoenaed the emails in question, and there are strong indications that the city has not delivered them. We already know that the city has been knowingly violating current law.
We already have the appearance of a crime, together with motive, means, and opportunity. "If the Republicans will stop lying about the Democrats, the Democrats will stop telling the truth about the Republicans" -- Adlai Stevenson
Frankly, I think the Feds should just storm the 5th floor, seize everything and end this farce.
This work is being done now, as we speak, by a contractor hired by city hall.
None of the PDF files posted could contain these emails.
City hall will tell the US Attorney they are terribly sorry Kineavy forgot about the computer swap in April and that some poor schmuck in IT is responsible for not completing the document production properly, but who is certainly not responsible for this incomplete document production? Of course, Kineavy, city hall counsel, Mayor Menino. www.bit.ly/7Wousr - "Must include a public option" www.bit.ly/7yaoMv - Coakley shifts, backs abortion curb www.bit.ly/5f8CVb - John Kerry reporting for duty! www.bit.ly/6rJnZU - Questions for Martha Coakley on Civil Rights
For an "urban mechanic," Menino is falling incredibly short on this basic democratic concept of providing public records access to Boston citizens. Even if there is no "smoking gun", the administration has been negligent for what looks like the entirety of Menino's terms in providing basic information. How long can we wait for Boston to enter the 21st century? It's obvious that this administration is either ignorant of current technology or actively corrupt. Does it really matter whether they're ignorant or corrupt?
BTW, the collection for each month seems to be in reverse chronological order; i.e. section 1 has the end of the month.
This is the equivalent of dumping a garbage-sack of shredded checks on the floor in response to a discovery motion in a divorce case, in this case carefully filtered to make sure that:
a) The material cannot be searched or indexed in any meaningful way b) The material does not include any incriminating emails (gathered by trusted and friendly sources) c) The material is big, bulky, and easily referenced in self-serving photo-ops and press releases.
More informative would be if the server logs were delivered to a truly independent forensic data recovery company, so that a list of each email sent and received by Mr. Kineavy, Mr. Turner, and Ms. Wilkerson could be enumerated. The truly interesting question would then be which of those emails the city has produced, and which remain missing.
I am surely not the only software professional in Massachusetts with the technical chops needed by this investigation. I'm happy to do it for significantly less than the $150 to $300 an hour being collected by StoneTurn to boil the email ocean:
Platt said his investigators found 40,000 instances of Kineavy's name on the older hard drive, but that the only way to determine whether those instances were e-mails was to have human beings examine each mention. It's a slow process, and a costly one, since StoneTurn charges between $150 and $300 an hour.
This quote demonstrates to my satisfaction why Mr. Platt is not suited to lead this investigation and, more importantly, why his firm has been retained by the Menino administration. It is clear enough to me that Mr. Platt's goal is to demonstrate that the task is impossible, rather than to solve the problem at hand.
I can do better, and I'm quite sure that the Boston area is filled with professionals like me who can do better. "If the Republicans will stop lying about the Democrats, the Democrats will stop telling the truth about the Republicans" -- Adlai Stevenson
You seem to be assuming that there are incriminating e-mails, and that their absence must indicate a cover up of some sort. Perhaps there are incriminating e-mails, but their absence in this sample is not evidence of anything in particular.
In any case, rather than whining about being able to see everything, go dig in and see what you can find.
[BTW, couldn't we just ask the NSA for copies of the missing e-mails? ;-]
I just don't think I can look past this. I thought my default after Yoon was Menino but I'm def thinking that Flaherty-Yoon is the only way progressives can go. Get into the 21st century and end this machine.
If it weren't for that, I would be a lot more willing to believe he is the real thing.
They want a 20% raise, for one. When Janet Wu asked Flaherty a number of pointed questions on the contract issue, he totally ducked the issue. He also promised a contract withing 100 days. The only way he could honestly promise any such thing is if he already has negotiated the contract with the union in advance.
It really is too bad that it could not have been Yoon vs. Menino. I would have voted for Yoon. I wonder if McCrea had put his support behind Yoon instead of attacking him if that would have been enough to put Yoon ahead of Flaherty.
Add your request to an effort to get disclosed the stenographic machine record of the last public meeting of Boston City Council http://www.cityofboston.gov/co...
They are not only not searchable, each page is emitted as an image! It's bad enough that the taxpayers paid for a bogus and at best incompetent recovery effort. It doesn't stop at that, though. After the material was re-assembled from the hard-drives -- and while it was readable by any tool -- this outfit then printed these as scanned pdf images.
This is intentional obfuscation. The point of this exercise was to create the appearance of producing something, while actually muddying the water.
Do the partners of StoneTurn -- the company responsible for executing this charade -- actually think this is going to be good for their business?
Maybe so -- I'd love to know who their other clients are, and whether those clients wear white or black hats. "If the Republicans will stop lying about the Democrats, the Democrats will stop telling the truth about the Republicans" -- Adlai Stevenson
