BE BREITBART: Update 10: DES Right To Know Update : DOIT and DES – a “gentle” (eh?) response

by
Skip

Well, my first reaction to the “final response” was this quick note fired off to the RTK Dude:

Sidebar: slightly edited here as it turned out the copy outbound had a few less words than here – brain saying the words and the fingers went partially deaf.

Mr. Demas,

I am in receipt of your alleged  final response – I can assure you it will not be a final communication.  I find the logic contained herein to be  very convoluted and tortured to conflate computer communication data packets with a personnel policy. While such a policy depends entirely on having such data records available, it is not a fact that those records are, in whole, subservient to that single purpose. Indeed, while the personnel policy is entirely dependent on those records, there are many other functions that those records could service as well and thus should not be considered exempt from our Right To Know request.

In fact, I thought of a half dozen in the space of 2 seconds – and I wasn’t trying hard.

In fact, we have already proven that the stated written policies of both DES and DoIT have not been followed either in respect to their letter of such nor their spirit. In fact, it is clear that your personnel policy does not even require using those records to take action in this case; I find with no small amount of irony that it is our records (where Mr. de Seve admitted his guilt to GraniteGrok and not to the State) that are serving as the bulwark of any actions that DES takes in dealing with Mr. de Seve. If it were not for GraniteGrok, he still would be breaking both DES and DoIT’s policies with impunity.

In essence, and with this response,you  have declared, in some no part,  that an ordinary citizen is no longer able to provide oversight and demand concrete accountability via definitive proof of their employees (for all “public servants” are employees of the citizenry).

We will be preparing a response to the unfortunate conclusion that DES and DoIT officials have concocted; with its conclusion and the argument in defense of it, DoIT and DES has proven that the outlook and fears of the readers and commenters of GraniteGrok were prescient.

– Skip

Skip Murphy for himself, Steve Mac Donald, and Ed Naile

 And indeed that if you go through some of what our commenters have written, they have opined that it was their opinion that something like this would happen.  Now, there was one thing that was stated in the final response that bears repeating, even as I am planning a fisking and another response:

Your request for production of that internet traffic information is one of first impression

Those last two words mean “er, we’ve never been asked for this before – now what do we do?”  We will be tellng them what they can do with those words – as well as a few other folks.  Stay tuned folks, this could get “interesting”

Sidebar: engineers have their own peculiar definition of “interesting”: intellectually stimulating, but boy, it’s gonna hurt for a while.  The question here is – who?

A partial answer, for one person, was this:

…DES can, and hereby does, inform you that there appears to be a correlation between Mr. de Seve’s computer use and the web posting activity you identified in your request. This is based partly on the admissions of Mr. de Seve.  Accordingly, based on the information you provided, together with that discovered in responding to your request, this matter is currently being addressed by DES’s Human Resources office.

You can be sure this is not the end of this mini-saga…

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Bonus: The RTK Dude texted after I sent that (he had a long weekend):

…don’t have your number here at home. If you have a moment, please give me a call on my…

Response:

Tripwire

Back at me?

…silver platter…

I can play this game:

Resurgence…

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • Skip

    Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

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