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Amid Probe, NY Governor Cuomo Orders Mass Deletion Of Government Emails
In an Onion-esque story almosty too unbelievable to be real, IB Times reports, in a memo obtained by Capital New York, Cuomo officials announced that mass purging of email records is beginning across several state government agencies. The timing of the announcement, which followed through on a 2013 proposal, is worth noting: The large-scale destruction of state documents will be happening in the middle of a sprawling federal investigation of public corruption in Albany.
Many probably felt relief in thinking that such records are now often digitized and therefore not at risk of being accidentally incinerated. Yet as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is showing this week, many records are vulnerable to another form of destruction: deliberate deletion.
As Capital New York reports...
The Cuomo administration has now fully implemented a policy of automatically deleting emails of rank-and-file state workers that are more than three months old, resulting in an effective purge of thousands of messages in recent days.
According to memos obtained by Capital, mass deletions began Monday at several state agencies after officials finished consolidating 27 separate email platforms to a single, cloud-based system called Office 365. It lets I.T. administrators purge any older messages, and can be set up to do so each day.
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But more than a dozen advocacy organizations—including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union and Sunlight Foundation, as well as New York-based good government groups—sent a letter to the governor late last month, arguing his policy was technologically unnecessary and out of step with the federal government, which saves emails from rank-and-file employees for seven years.
“In this era, government runs on email, and access to email and electronic records has become a cornerstone of public transparency. Our groups are very concerned that the administration’s June 2013 policy of using centralized software to automatically delete state employee emails after 90 days is resulting in the destruction of emails that are considered public records under New York’s Freedom of Information Law,” wrote the groups, which were organized by Reinvent Albany. “This policy was adopted without public notice or comment. Furthermore, we are extremely concerned that the inevitable destruction of email records under your 90-day automatic deletion policy directly undermines other public accountability laws like the False Claims Act.”
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IB Times goes on to note that Cuomo’s move to purge state emails follows a similar move he made as state Attorney General.
International Business Times confirmed that in 2007, he put in place a mass deletion policy for emails in the New York Attorney General’s office that were more than 90 days old, making it difficult for the public to know how -- or whether -- his office investigated bank fraud in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008. In the Cuomo administration’s announcement this week, the governor's chief information officer, Maggie Miller, justified the new email purge as a cost-saving measure aimed at “making government work better.”
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Melanie Sloan, a former Clinton Justice Department official, said the timing of the move raises significant legal questions.
“This is potentially obstruction of justice,” she told IBTimes. “The only reason that the government destroys records is so no one can question what it is doing, and no one can unearth information about improper conduct. There’s no reason for New York not to preserve this information.”
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Is anyone really surprised?
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Delete away, but there will always be a copy saved somewhere
i got a better idea...how about a mass deletion of arrogant sociopathic fascist criminal politicians and their masters ?!
Open criminality run rampant.
Remembrances of Robin Hood
Do they actually expect people to believe that the government is SUDDENLY interested in "a cost-saving measure aimed at “making government work better."???
FYI, this is going on everywhere. Positions are even created to ensure compliance with retention policies.
HA HA, just try the deleting the copies of the e-mails at the NSA
whether -- his office investigated bank fraud in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008.
but for the bank fraud the bankers did not go to jail so how can you blame this clown for not investigating something that supposedly was not really fraud because if it were the bankers would be in jail?
Meanwhile, every business needs to keep every schnitzel of paper for at least 7 years. Who audits the auditors when the auditors have become corrupt? Who audits the IRS when the IRS has become corrupt? Who audits .gov when .gov has become corrupt?
When evidence has been destroyed, the jury is instructed to consider it as an admission by the defendant that the emails were evidence of wrongdoing.
Kinda' make you want to call for the mass deletion of government employees, don't it?
An attempted mass deletion of emails brought down Oregon's now former governor.
Public records are what preserve the Republic against even more rampant cronyism.
"Mass deletion of emails"
It's kind of laughable. Cuomo and Silverspoon should have taken lessons from the Lois Lerner case and shredded hard drives.
but but the IRS did it, and they are just fine..mass deletion of emails, he hired Lois Lerner to lead his team.
"Public records are what preserve the Republic against even more rampant cronyism."
If that's true, and I think it is, then perhaps the presumption of innocent until proven guilty should be waived for public officials who willfully destroy public records. That is, any public official who knowingly/willfully destroys public records shall be deemed by that fact alone as guilty of obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
That meme only applies to private business and private citizens and employees. Public employees are exempt from the law and if they aren't they just change the law to exempt themselves. Even unlawful acts can be made lawful if 50%+1 vote for it. Murder could be made lawful by a simple majority.
Obviously not. Emperor Cuomo and his sycophantic state legislature cannot let the hoi polloi know anything about the inner workings or there might be a revolt. Well, probably not. In NY as everywhere else people are either too busy or too stupid and lazy to care what the fuck takes place in politics.
The failure of the Founding Fathers to make provision for term limits (even though the Supreme Court was wrong, as they seemingly are on everything these days, in striking down the term limit movement among the states) will prove to have been the achilles heel of the current republican experiment.
But disk space is so expensive! *snicker*
Is there a button for that?
America is so fucked.
DavidC
Is that sudden realization or not?
Oracle,
That made me smile! No, it's not!
DavidC
That will be true for mass surveillance data only.
Are you fucking kidding me? Can this corruption be any more in your face?? I see an arrogant NY douchebag in prison garb soon...
You mean like all those orange-jumpsuit-clad Wall Street arrogant douchebags that we still haven't seen?
It's the Corzine way.... Free John Corzine!
It is the Mike Huckaby (past Republican Governor of Ark) way of doing things. http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/the-tale-of-the-tapes/Content?oid=863230
wwxx
Give ISIS time.
Yep, I could not have said it any better myself...
"delete? why? it's easier than that, silly!"
best,
Lois Lerner (currently enjoying my $124,000 bonus)
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW, and run off into the hills, or wherever. Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: "Did little demons get inside and type it?" I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts.
Sometimes you have to destroy justice to save it. Sound familiar?
The ends ALWAYS justify the means.
If only. Corzine is still a free man.
Like I have said before, these fucking fascist/crony fucking criminals will never indicte themselves... If they cannot change the laws quick enough they will destroy evidence and eliminate wittnesses...
same as it ever was... (especially in jew york)
They never hang themselves from lamppost either.
"It takes a village"
"It takes a pillage"
Cool! delete my taxpaying US citizenship status while you are at it, you dirty fuck!
Sorry, but that's an inalienable status. Revocation DENIED!
Makes perfect sense. Makes government work better.
This is the rule everyone should follow for their personal financial records: 90 days.
Gmail's claim to fame was that you'd never need to delete email. They have you a ton of space to store it all.
After two years of storage, by law, your emails become theirs and no warrant is needed to search them by government officials.
Of course, we've both used it to communicate and in a couple years they'll know you provide great service when folks buy your art. Even if postal services bork the hard cardboard tube you seal the print in. Jerks.
It's all hebrew to me anyway
hey it worked for lois lerner
thanks lois. way to set the bar.
Here's to the "Snowden" who will assuredly scuttle that shit off to a thumb drive before wiping.
New policy: we can sue you but you can't sue us.
Well to be fair, his face should be punishment enough for any crime. and the obligatory fuck him with a chainsaw.
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Cuomo is a fucking evil bastard and he looks like a crazy fuck. NY'ers must be crazy to elect a douche like this.
NYC elected him. The rest of us? not so much
Another day in the world reserve currency providing banana republic.
They made their 1st mistake in putting them in cloud storage. There will now be a copy of all the deleted emails. The feds will be able to get these directly from Microsoft or their cloud storage vendor.
Gmail, bitchez!
This is so unbelievably disgusting that I am nearly speechless.
Nearly. I actually will tell everyone I meet.
Grotesque...
We deleted some emails.
We deleted some emails, on some folks!
there, fixed it.
God forbid the NSA actually do something useful with all its spying and nail this guy.
News just out:
"As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters."
this idiot will start a civil war, folks the pols are removing evidence and soon the internet is under thier thum.
I saw this coming from miles (and years) away. Stockplied several thousand SS109s a looong time ago on my reloading bench........ban THAT bitchez.
I got into shooting too late to snatch up any of that old black tip .308 but I'd give my left nut for a few K.
SS109 is a shitty penetrator, calling it "armor piercing" is a joke. M193 is just as effective as SS109 against soft body armor. Against plate armor, neither M193 or SS109 is effective.
The real reason that Obama is pulling this stunt is that there is a shit-ton of manufacturing capacity for SS109/M855 and huge stockpiles of it now that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are over. This will prevent that from getting into civilian hands.
They are absolutely terrified of their own people.
The NSA?!!! Who ya kiddin' here?!! The NSA works FOR the Cuomos-and the Clintons...and the Bushs
Mario and Andrew are "made men" -NSA is their tool
In a sense, the NSA IS that guy.
I think I gotta get me one of those agency mailboxes. Are they planning any similar Gmail invites soon?
This is another example of why stealing is OK in private life. That means you and me. Grab what you can!!
No surprise here - Cuomo started out as Slick Willy's Hood from HUD.
Untold $Billions went "missing" during his "tenure". (Nuttin poisonal - juss biznuss.)
It's hardly surprising that Andy & Hillary are such good pals....
He'll run for President.
A fish rots from the head down.
Nothing will happen to Cuomo except maybe a cabinet appointment by Obama or the next fuckwad-in-chief. Corruption is the norm, not the exception. Laws only apply to the sheep. Government is now immune from all crime and accountability.
Fuck them all.
I see his affirmative action hired son on CNN every day at work and it's a great lift me up. Makes me laugh every time I see his slimy face.
Yet many private individuals have been prosecuted and some convicted for cleaning up the hard drive on their personal home computers.
Here is something that his father said when he himself was getting the jewish vote and support.
“The Jews need a shabbos goy [Sabbath gentile] because they can’t do everything for themselves."
It has to be almighty corrupted to get this Governor Cumon elected.
Up your nose with a rubber hose America!
40 years of Liberal corruption, I'm shocked shocked I tell you.
Come back Tammany Hall.
All is forgiven.
Another captain of corruption. Just so many of them there wouldn't be enough prison space.
I love having no rights. Without them, I have nothing to defend. That man's I'm free! /s
The same analogy goes for corrupt politicians.
I'm glad they have the right to break the law! That means politicians aren't criminals! I'll vote for them! /s
The media cover for this will be intense. I love that jihadi John is blowing Obama's lie out of the water. A rich Londoner needs a job to prevent his becoming a true Muslim? He had money, why did he need a job Mr president?
Today, federal probe due to alleged misconduct.
Soon, rectal probe applied with epic misconduct in federal prison.
I used to work for New York State. Worker's Compensation Board. I woud approve payments to medical providers and they would get notice in the mail that a check would be coming at some point within the next 4 months. I then had to pretend I was checking on the status of those payments because we were forbiden from conacting the department in charge of cutting the checks because they didn't actually have any money or intent of paying anything.
Also when people asked for a copy of a case's file, we had to tell them that we did not keep those records. Except I would give them another"department" to call - and give them a copy of the file in exchange for a check in my name - 75 cents per page. Made an extra $100 a month that way
what would be shocking to me is finding ANY politician that is NOT a criminal, that NOT a liar, that is NOT corrupt - that would truely be shocking
And then find me one that isn't a Lawyer...
There's always a few. Stalin referred to them as "useful idiots."
As a New Yorker (upstate, where most - well, some - people are fairly cogent, honest and righteous) and 1/2 Italian and 1/2 Sicilian (the better half, of course), I hold this fucker personally in contempt. He's single-handedly given New York and Italian-Americans another scar on their already collectively-beaten faces.
Cuomo is as guilty of high crimes as any banker on Wall Street. Here are some myths and the actual truths about this puke of a "governor.":
Myth: It's been said that Governor Cuomo sucks Lloyd Blankfein's dick twice a week.
Truth: Four times a week (twice on Sunday).
Myth: Cuomo had sex with Hillary Clinton
Truth: He had sex with a goat while Hillary and Bill watched.
Myth: Cuomo's nickname is Dickmouth.
Truth: It's actually Cockass.
Myth: Cuomo has a four-inch pecker.
Truth: He has no penis (h/t to Mike Myers)
Myth: Cuomo plays with himself.
Truth: Yes, he does, usually with Sheldon Silver in attendance.
Fuck you, Cuomo.
Sincerely,
All NY residents North and West of Poughkeepsie.
Sicilians are supposed to hold a grudge. Do your righteous duty paisan.
If Barry so desires the NSA BoozAH would've been way ahead of the game and already sitting on the dirt. OR NOT. GCHQ have their backs and rightly so, NSA being their pay-master general an' all.
The elites write the rule book. The laws and system are set up to protect the elites from
the masses/serfs. When you write the rule book you will never be a criminal, which gives
you the latitude to do anything you want whenever you want. Full-spectrum dominance. Total
and complete control. Absolute power.
The current arrangement crafted by the elites is nothing more than the age-old concept
of absolute rule over the masses/serfs. Their power is derived from their rule that its
legal for them to create/print as much "money" as they want and that it is illegal for
anyone not in their club/circle (ie, the masses/serfs) to create/print money. If you
can create limitless amounts of "money" then there is no limits to your power and control.
You can buy, own, and control everything and everyone. Which is why the fiat "money"
creation will never stop.
Its the new "Totalitarianism" of the West by the Western banksters and those that they hired
to do their dirty work. Its an insidious, covert form of Totalitarianism. Most people do
not know that they are ruled by this new Totalitarian regime. And that's how the banksters
get away with it. The best slave is the slave that doesn't know he's a slave.
How can anybody stay in the US? Get out while you still can. I realize the globalists dreams make it so other countries are alike than the past, but the US is it's own giant experiement for the JWO to see how much they can screw a country over. We even get to be their murderers working to enslave ourselves, if we don't get killed in the process.
Uhm, leave the US for where?
At this point North Korea, Cuba and Iran dont look bad.
Iceland looks great
i dunno ... makes perfect sense to me ...
With all that additional free space on their drives, think of all the porn they can download now.....
Here's a suggestion for all New Yorkers:
Wait until after April 1 to file your taxes, and send in a blank form, with a note saying "the governor ate my records."
Bankrupt the fuckers.
We've gotten to a time now where the people in power are no longer accountable to the tax payers. They do what they want when they want. I would suggest that it all stems from a monetary system that allows them endless blank checks. How big can a government get and still be accountable? The Constitution is nothing more than a footnote at this point.
I love Italians, but they're corrupt as hell. Cuomo and his old man being prime examples.
@Monty Burns: Come on, "Italians are corrupt as hell"? That's a huge generalization that's no different than saying "All blacks are stupid". All peoples have corrupt individuals, it's human nature.
Its all good the NSA has all those emails in question. J Edgar's closeted ass would be so jealous.
I hope this bastard gets a fish bone stuck in his asshole.
We live in a freaking banana republic.
What is the down-side to deleting emails for Cuomo. There is none.
When I was a DBA I would have got 20 years minimum sentence behind bars for doing what Cuomo just ordered. I was required to read the laws regarding Email data storage and sign off that understood them.
But…with no press to cause public outcry and no threat from Washington from Obozo and the gang… who cares…corruptions and tyranny are here to stay…
I'm guessing that all of those laws have been changed to ensure mandatory deletion upon expiration as per the retention policy for whatever category an email is in.
As a DBA, I'm sure you may have seen your share of "book copying" for the purposes that are less than... legal, shall we say? You don't have to answer that. The bad thing about technology is, it makes corruption easier and the corrupt more effiecient and harder to stop.
How fitting that Cuomo's son is an Anchor at CNN.
The rotten apple never falls far from the rotten tree.
Yeah right, you want something done so you tell a government agency to do something? - good luck with that!...
You would think the Fed would stop that. Tampering with evidence = jail time.
They're hiding the fact they've been skimming a little too much off the top. Their fedral masters won't be pleased.
will anonymous go after a dem?
will a whistleblower step forward with a copy of the emails?
i think someone is starting to look presidential!
No worries... Holder will step in and do a full, honest investigation...
HaaaaaHaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Most people already know that this creature is supposedly bangin Sandra Lee of Food Network fame. She has a strange fascination with costumes. Wonder which one is his favorite?
http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2010/10/11/Sandra-Lee_Cleopatra-Hallowee...
Ha, FUCK YOU CUOMO!
Microsoft Changing Its Retention Policy for Deleted Office 365 E-Mails
Microsoft gave notice today that it plans to change how long deleted e-mails get retained for organizations using Office 365 services.
The current default policy is that deleted e-mails are still recoverable for 30 days after they get deleted by an end user, but after that period of time, they become unrecoverable. The new policy will eliminate this automatic removal aspect. Deleted e-mails always will be recoverable.
http://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/02/20/microsoft-changing-email-reten...
In non-bananna republics that is call tampering with evidence.
I would pose that technically he has ordered the destruction of government property. This is not his to destroy, it is the people's property, the taxpayers property created on the taxpayers dime. He has no right to demand such action without something "legal" like passing a bill or something. We are being "governed" by crooks and criminals and yet they demand we comply and then they simply ignore the same laws.
As long as the hard drives exist, the ability to ressurect e-mails is still there. The IRS mysteriously lost their e-mails and then several months later, they reappeared. Where's there's a will there's a way. Go get'em Elliot Ness....:)
This guy's a fascist 100%.