According to communications obtained from the City of Greensboro, attornies with the U.S. Department of Justice are dissatisfied with the level of cooperation received from the City of Greensboro relating to the DOJ's investigation of discrimination claims.
Particularly, the DOJ wants to see the RMA Report and the city is only willing to show them the portions a judge ordered released, which is not much.
This damn hack-authored report has been thoroughly discredited by Jerry Bledsoe. It is a bane to Greensboro's race relations. It is not worth obstructing a DOJ investigation to protect its "secrecy." The City Council should vote to publicly release it -- or someone should email their copy to the DOJ.
Here are the correspondences between the City and the DOJ regarding the City's cooperation:
[NOTE OF GRATITUDE: Thank you to the City of Greensboro for a very speedy response to my request for these documents.]
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Let's pretend that you aren't as close to this as you are. Let's pretend this was a distant city and you had only passing knowledge.
ReplyDeleteA judge says that part of a report can't be released. Wouldn't it be improper for city officials to release it? Maybe even against the law?
"What's legal" can't be situational; it's either right or wrong legally. I do not know if the DOJ trumps a judge's decision (if it does, then release it!) but if it does not, then isn't the city acting in the only way it can?
No, Sue, it would not be improper for, as I suggested, the City Council to vote to release the RMA report. The law gives them that ability if it is in the public interest. I've long thought releasing the RMA report was in the public interest, we can now add complying with a request from the DOJ to the list of reasons why.
ReplyDeleteSue said: "Let's pretend"
ReplyDeleteThat is the entire problem
It seems to me that enough of the RMA report was posted by various media sources after Dianne Bellamy-Small saw fit to give away her copy that the Council refusing to give it to the DoJ is like trying to corral a cat that's already out of the bag.
ReplyDeleteI suggested to John Robinson over on his N&R Blog that DoJ investigators should first question Lorraine Ahearn as she is the definitive repository of all the info on this case, and JR pooh-poohed the idea. Imagine, questioning the one person in Greensboro who claims to know it all! How silly of me, once again.
I like how Sue (she is not the only one) will twist this thing all around to try an make it fit what they want it to fit. They should just look at it for what it is and accept that.
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