"Hopefully we learn and don't make the same mistake again."Bloomberg
Can you imagine if Nixon told the Washington Post after the first Watergate Story that he is sorry and should have paid more attention to what his staff was doing and the Post never continued its investigation, because he said it would not happen again. The dumbing down of reporters and the changing culture of the press from watch dogs for the average Joe to corporate owners of the media who use their papers to make money for themselves. The mayor has reason to optimistic that the press will not push him to come up with answers to who in his administration was in on the corruption. We already know DOI looked the other way when the former head of the Office of Payroll Richard Valcich sent a letter in 2003 to DOI outlining the corruption that was going on.
1. Mr. Valcich allegedy sent a rambling letter to Mark V. Hughes, a VP at the primary contrator for the SAIC project. Allegedly. Howver, why would he send a letter to him, telling him things that everyone knew already, such that they were overbudget, behind schedule, etc. in 2003? Why wasn't Mr. Page or Mr. Ruppel cc'd on the final page of the aforesaid letter? They were on the OPA Policy board, and would undoubtedly be very interested in hearing about the travails of implementing a system by that time already $63,000,000.00 US overbudget.
ReplyDelete2. However, DOI is a different matter entirely. Various people came forward with what they've called "crazy" or "preposterous" theories that Mazer was not a mastermind. (Heck, I don't believe Mr. Mazer could have masterminded his way out of an empty parking lot.) First, the DOI claims only some $84 million dollars, then $460 Million taken by the Allens, who fllee to India, now the DOJ, have for now, put the figure at $600 Million.; Maybe those various people were not so crazy after all.