Thursday, November 5, 2015

State police report supports Kitzhaber email whistleblower


I finally got motivated to read through the 1,502-page report from the Oregon State Police on the witch hunt into the whistleblower who refused to delete former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s emails.

One of the things that kept bothering me as I read it was how wrong it all seemed. Looking at this from the perspective of “a regular Oregonian,” here’s what it looked like. It looked like powerful people in Oregon government, including the former governor and first lady, were engaged in activities that should have been investigated but weren’t – going back to at least October of 2014 when Willamette Week did the work our government should have been doing. Where were the Oregon State Police and Oregon attorney general then? Why no investigation then? During the months and months of additional reporting and the stonewalling by the now former governor, where was the investigation?

Read more at the Oregon Catalyst

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