Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Vague tales from the cryptic
Dambala writes:
It appears my Manhattan project may be unfolding from the ground up.
Then he provides the pertinent link to a news story that just broke:
Mayor Ray Nagin's 2008 e-mails deleted in violation of records law
What can I say about this? Certainly not as much as I would like.
Let's put it this way: when Dambala uses the phrase "Manhattan project" to describe his work, he is
not making an overstatement. This isn't a mere bundle of buried political dynamite, kids. We're talking about the possible detonation of something exponentially more explosive-- a political atom bomb that will deeply impact New Orleans history for decades to come. I mean... this is seriously jaw-dropping. (And I don't mean "jaw-dropping" as in a "surprised gape"; I mean "jaw-dropping" as in
your freakin' jaw fell off your face and is laying there on the sidewalk-- that sort of "jaw-dropping"... And how many years would pass before you forgot the time when your jaw unexpectedly dropped off your face? ... Exactamundo.)
Dambala then quotes a commenter who states:
Those emails can be recovered. You cannot delete anything from a hard drive. A skilled forensic person can retrieve them.
Dambala replies:
How right you are [commenter]! If I was a betting man... I would say they have already been recovered.
Well, I'm definitely a betting man, and I know where the smart money is moving on this one. Ask yourselves, who might've recovered the emails? That's a pretty short list. Clearly, someone who knows what they are doing. And what did that person (or persons)
uncover in those recovered emails? Something politically atomic, judging from Dambala's metaphor. And I'm here to tell ya that that metaphor is closer to euphemism than overstatement.
Until very recently I assumed that Nagin was just an empty-headed ineffectual clown; a "do-nothing" Dubya, a victor of circumstance who got re-elected because he followed
Jim Carvin's directions with uncharacteristic discipline. I assumed that Nagin, despite his (inscrutably) bizarre outbursts and tiffs, was basically too stupid to inflict serious harm. Sure, he'd stand by and act like things were fine while his stricken city died a slow death... and sure, he'd find ways to duke his cronies a million here or there while making public comments about how transparent his administration was... but
until recently I comfortably assumed that he was too stupid or incompetent to do something really, truly wicked.
Until recently.
Labels: Nagin, patriotism, Pelicans
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I hate to be a jerk about this, but you said you'd never underestimate him again three years ago. It's just been a little frustrating because I've been screaming at reporters and bloggers that somebody can be stupid in every other way and still have criminal intelligence. Or, maybe it's just that it doesn't really take much intelligence to be cunning, as long as you're unscrupulous.
On the other hand, if he really put anything incriminating in emails thinking that he could just delete them, he's pretty stupid.
As long as there's that second Cerasoli report that was delivered to "someone", deleting potential evidence is probably itself enough to get him dragged into the dock.
Keep it up, Ray.
With the email deletion and sudden cancelling of open meetings, C. Ray whipped it out and smacked the city in the face with his dick.
If nothing comes of this, nothing will.
I'd heard from sources in the IT world that Anthony Jones was being set up to take the fall for something BIG. I'm with BSJD - if Nagin's boys were behind what I'm hearing they were behind (which is SO JAW DROPPING!!!), wouldn't they know better than to email msgs incriminating themselves on the city's system? And yet... an old Black man once told me 'People always end up telling on themselves". anyway, I'm digressing. The point I'm making is, I always believed what my friend was telling me about Jones being set up. I wonder what part he played in this timebomb and how they orchestrated it for him to take the rap.
I guess we'll just have to wait it out - with popcorn and a cold drink on the side LOL!
"Lacks the server space" is bullshit. And if they don't have a backup procedure in place, then they're really, really foolish (something tells me that's a bullshit excuse, too.)
Also...short of literally drilling holes into the drives, it's not particularly difficult to restore data.
The information that is contained in the e mails is only incriminating if someone looks at it.
People get lazy and bold at the same time when they think no one is watching.
Could one of you guys spell out the rumor for those of us not so plugged in? Thx.
And now the T-P headline is that Nagin wants sole authority to award contracts...WTF is going on down there? 'S like he's gettin ready for a coup...
He's covering his ass with as much of Jim Bernhard's and Dick Cheney/Halliburton's cash as he possibly can, before his little fiefdom goes "kablooey!!!".
I cannot fucking WAIT to see what Dambala pulls off, and I will send that guy cupcakes and porn when it all hits the fan.
Any updates yet?
