Strickland dribbling out stolen data details

I’ve generally been a defender of Gov. Strickland on the stolen data tape issue because the bad backup policy was already in force when he became governor, and the matter is hardly the type of thing that would be addressed in the first 100 or 200 days of a new administration. But the way details are coming out on exactly what information was on the tape seems a bit too controlled. As seemingly everyone reported yesterday, in addition to all the other data, the tape also contained 200,000 taxpayer records.

Here’s BizzyBlog:

But in my opinion, the need for an independent investigation is there because we donâ€™t know who and what are causing the situation to continually mushroom. Itâ€™s making the governor (unfairly, in this case) look like a buffoon. To be finding out 10 days later that what was thought to be encrypted isnâ€™t, what was thought to be locked wasnâ€™t, and that the scope of what was stolen is still growing, is ridiculous. If the game-playing goes high enough (like to the governorâ€™s cabinet? or a handler?), any attempted internal investigation might be compromised. Itâ€™s better to have an independent investigation now and clean house than to either never get a handle on what happened or to have the truly guilty parties engineer some kind of fall-guy/gal result.

I donâ€™t believe Ted Strickland is foolish enough to be dribbling out the bad news like this. If he is, thatâ€™s a whole different matter entirely.

To which Conservative Culture responds:

I disagree with the last line. Strickland I think knows what he is doing and that he is intentionally dribbling it out. Perhaps he doesnâ€™t know just how bad it might be but he could have after the first mis-information had his aids double back to verify what they knew.

I just don’t see how it could take so long to find out and tell us what’s on the tape when they have had an exact duplicate of the tape the whole time.

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Posted by Tom Blumer | Jun 21, 2007 11:38 am

You should probably change your link to me to last night’s post; currently it goes to Tuesday night’s.

Thanks for the post.

Posted by BizzyBlog » What the ???? (Ohio Data Theft Update; Time for an Independent Investigation) | Jun 21, 2007 12:13 pm

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Posted by Brian | Jun 21, 2007 12:44 pm

Thanks, Tom. It’s fixed.

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