I cannot start to make this up.
A former Mike Easley aide testifies that the former governor kept a secret email address under “Nick Danger” in order to skirt the state’s email disclosure rules. Easley also counseled staff not to use email in order to avoid creating a paper trial trail.
Recall that in 2008 Charlotte city attorney Mac McCarley was among the “experts” appointed by Easley to vet the state’s email policy. The panel left it up to state employees to decide if emails were important enough to save for public disclosure.
This is what “Nick Danger” said at the time of the panel’s appointment, at the exact instant he was hiding his secret email account:
These are distinguished individuals, from inside and outside of state government, who bring both experience and concern for public affairs and public information to this important task. I know their input will provide guidance so that we make sure the public’s records are properly maintained.
And indeed it did.
Bonus Huh: “Nick Danger” was spelled backwards. On account of the governor’s learning disability.
