Mar 07 2008
Troopers Taunting Narcotics Officers Caught on Tape
COLUMBIA — Months before the South Carolina Senate confirmed Jim Schweitzer in 2004 as the new director of the Department of Public Safety, Sen. Jake Knotts of Lexington said he showed him a videotape of Highway Patrol troopers harassing local narcotics agents on a stakeout because the troopers were upset the local officers were in their territory.The troopers, in an unmarked SUV, parked near the local agents and then did what they could to discourage the agents from staying, Knotts said, including shining their lights on the highway, shouting and singing over their vehicle’s loudspeaker and turning on their blue lights. And when the agents finally pulled out onto the highway in pursuit of the car they were waiting on, the troopers blocked them, Knotts said.
He said Schweitzer told him that he couldn’t believe what he was seeing when watching the tape after Knotts told him that the commander of the patrol, Russell Roark, didn’t always hand out the necessary punishment when his officers misbehaved.
It’s becoming more clear that getting rid of these two chuckleheads was the right thing. This story above make them sound like a bunch of children. Schweitzer was aware of it and simply didn’t care.
Attorney General Henry McMaster Contemplating Investigation Of Governor Mark Sanford
FITSNews - March 9, 2008 - “S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster is weighing an investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford’s involvement in a controversial Lowcountry development deal, sources tell FITSNews”.
“According to an e-mail obtained by FITSNews, Sanford is said to have accused Hilton Head Island developer David Staley of being a “womanizer.†Staley’s firm won the bid to develop the property”…
“FITSNews on the condition of anonymity claim they have uncovered a “smoking gun†against Sanford, who is on the record saying that he did not specifically instruct his Ports Authority Chairman to sell the property to any particular bidder”.
“These Senators point to an e-mail drafted for the signature of Ports Authority Chairman Bill Stern, an e-mail that was obtained by the Senate Finance Committee under the state’s Freedom of Information Act”.
“In the e-mail - which Stern apparently never sent to Sanford - the governor’s involvement on behalf of Chaffin/Light is specifically characterized as an instruction, not a recommendation”.
http://www.fitsnews.com/2008/03/09/mcmaster-contemplating-investigation-of-sanford/