In Today's Albany Times Union, State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno blamed a computer "glitch" for the fact that the data on pork "member item" spending that he was compelled to release under court order was locked up with password protected security. This security made it rather difficult for members of the public or the press to make any sense of the thousands of pages of rather poorly scanned documents.
Unlike similar documents released by the Assembly, the Senate's can't be readily analyzed with computer software and had special encryption. Bruno blamed a "glitch" in the Senate computer system...
You are lying, Mr Bruno. You know it. I know it.
Those docs weren't encrypted by a "glitch" or by accident. Furthermore, a "glitch" didn't fight the TU tooth and nail to keep that data from the public. A "glitch" didn't decide to make those docs as unusable as possible and dump them the day before Thanksgiving. A "glitch" doesn't employ such a paragon of public service as John "That's all you are going to get" McArdle. A "glitch" doesn't continue to insult the public's right to know about what their elected representatives are doing with public money and a "glitch" isn't now insulting their intelligence.
No, Mr Bruno, that would be you. |
