Saturday, September 26, 2009
'It’s a mentality that the information belongs to them'
Not much dirt has turned up re Michael J. Kineavy’s City Hall emails -- not yet. But get a load of the hammer blows (every one of them deserved) that Dave Wedge delivers to the Menino adminstration for the way it released the emails. My favorite bulleted item:
Some in the adminstration are apparently bellyaching that reproducing the emails is "cost prohibitive." Maybe if they had kept track of emails in the first place and didn't require expensive computer forensics teams to retrieve them, then perhaps the costs might have been a little lower, right guys?
Not much dirt has turned up re Michael J. Kineavy’s City Hall emails -- not yet. But get a load of the hammer blows (every one of them deserved) that Dave Wedge delivers to the Menino adminstration for the way it released the emails. My favorite bulleted item:
* near-comical bargaining over the cost of viewing the e-mails that went from $3,800 Thursday night to $1,000 by yesterday afternoon. a beat-the-clock time restriction for the paper to review the 5,018 e-mails that initially provided just 30 minutes - less than three seconds per e-mail - under the watchful eyes of city lawyers. That time limit was ultimately extended.
Some in the adminstration are apparently bellyaching that reproducing the emails is "cost prohibitive." Maybe if they had kept track of emails in the first place and didn't require expensive computer forensics teams to retrieve them, then perhaps the costs might have been a little lower, right guys?
