Menino: We spent $1 million to fix e-mail problems
By adamg - 9/15/09 - 3:11 pm
Back in May, when missing e-mail problem was discovered, he tells NECN this morning. Also says he talked to the US Attorney's office yesterday, which is kind of interesting since his three opponents lodged complaints with state and county officials, not the US Attorney's office. The feds did show interest in City Hall communications during its investigation of Diannne Wilkerson. Adrian Walker has more.
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More?
Adrian Walker has more? Are you now a fan?
In general, no
But he does seem to be the only guy the Cooperating Witness talks to, and it seems to be one of the few things that gets him to actually do original, um, columning.
What is in these emails?
I hope that we find out. Why would the machine delete them if they were not dodgy?
Something rotten here
There is something rotten here. Why did the Menino Machine go to the trouble of deleting all these emails. Call the Feds in, I say.
Gonna have to read more
Do I understand this correctly right now?
Mayor: Someone noticed that we lost some e-mails in our computer system. It was a "glitch". We spent $1,000,000 to fix the "glitch". It won't happen again, but there was nothing evil here.
Likely reality: Someone caught public officials deleting e-mails. They blamed it on a "glitch" and then flushed $1,000,000 in an attempt to cover it up as if it were a problem with the computers that needed a $1,000,000 solution...even though they knew damn well there was nothing wrong with the computers. Now that they're caught, they promise not to do it again.
Is that about the size of it?
servers and the IT auditor
The information provided so far doesn't appear to answer all the questions out there.
An attorney deleting mail from his sent box does not a scandal make.
The issue is the integrity of the outgoing SMTP servers at cityofboston.gov . Are they claiming they were not backing copies of the logs of the outgoing mail?
It just doesn't seem possible that Boston city hall could have dropped the ball that bad. After Enron, everyone was all for AUDITING. This included IT auditors. The had a fiducial responsibility to log.
So who was Boston city hall's auditor?
BULLSHIT
$1,000,000 @ $200/hr (1600/day) = 5000 hours = 125 work weeks.
I hope someone is filing a FOIA request pronto for all papers relating to that technology project. It surely was secured by someone the mayor's willing to pay a premium.
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