The latest report about the attention-diverting e-mail panel created by Gov. Easley shows that he and right-hand man Franklin Freeman still have no reluctance about throwing state employees under the bus, in order to give the impression that they had no control over the situation. Yesterday the panel recommended a “computerized training tutorial and quiz for government workers who need or want it,” so the supposedly ignorant employees would now understand what they can or cannot delete from the computers.
Lest anyone forget, this whole problem did not arise because rank-and-file employees did not know what they should save. It became a problem when it was discovered that Easley’s public information officer(s) — those who know more about public records law than anyone else in government (or at least they should) — instructed other PIOs to intentionally destroy e-mail messages sent to and sent from the governor’s office.
Roy Cooper, are you investigating yet?
