Friday, November 17, 2006

Who Can We Trust?

A good question to ask whenver there is something important going on.

If one is doing something important and, especially, if there is a threat that someone else, who disagrees with what you are doing, might take advantage of information, it is ESSENTIAL that people with a need to know have the information they need.

Conversely, people who do not have a ‘need to know’, should NOT be given important information. In the military, this is referred to as OPSEC, OPerational SECurity. It’ is essential for the success of an operation.

We may be encountering something along an OPSEC failure with our current efforts. Of late we’ve had some ‘set backs’ in our effort to pursue an investigation of possible electoral fraud.

The latest came today when Troy Ard reported that the County Clerk had renigged on a promise to allow our team to look at some of the Eagle voting machines and ballots therein.

According to Troy’s report, last Wednesday evening, everything was ‘cool’. Chris ascerted her complete transparency. We set up a team to go in this afternoon.

Low and behold….Chris’ people refused to grant our people access until, get this, Tuesday of next week. This is a ‘stall’. Of the classic form. And it deserves someone filling out affidavits relating to all the facts surrounding the stall. Failure to do so will likely indicate someone is not really working ‘with’ us.

We need to talk about that. There are a number of questions that spring to mind.

None that I’ll address here, before I talk with a couple of other people…...