Mar 30 2008
State Workers Told to Kill Emails
State government public information officers were instructed by Gov. Mike Easley’s press office to delete e-mail to and from the Governor’s Office, according to notes the Governor’s Office released Saturday.Andrew A. Vanore Jr., a lawyer who works for Easley, produced notes made by two public information officers showing that they and others were told at a meeting May 29 to destroy e-mail messages. Vanore said a third public information officer, whom he would not identify, also recalled those instructions.Vanore said, however, that the notes don’t mean what they say. He also said the instructions were not followed.
It’s clear Easley has been playing a CYA policy on his own behalf for a long time now, evident by how difficult it has been for the media to successfully nail down all the details on the governor’s failure to reform the state’s mental health facilities. The question now arises, what else does the public not know about? What tracks has the Easley administration been so adamant on covering? What is Mike Easley trying to hide?
