Reading the recently released emails city tech. contractor Sunblock reportedly recovered from Mayor Nagin's missing email database is kind of like watching Fox News....the information seems suspiciously orchestrated.
Nagin administration releases some of the mayor's newly found e-mails
Let's see.....Ray never threatened Fielkow, Karen Gadbois is lying about NOAH, Ray was concerned about Councilperson Head's safety in council chambers, The Time Picayune, Lee Zurik and bloggers are evil, Chris Rose is an asshole (Honore concurs), Ray was worried about General Mize clearing "legal hurdles" regarding the Federal City development (very strategic Ray as we both know there's good reason to be worried), and most importantly....Ray Nagin is the second coming of Martin Luther King, Jr.
What an interesting smattering of data.
I'm glad we're paying SunBlock upwards of 80k to perform that mystical voodoo they do to recapture these important moments in our city's history. Too bad SunBlock won't comment on the ancient Chinese secret they used to get those choice emails...I have a hunch I know how it works though....wanna hear my theory? No? Well bugger off, I'm gonna tell you anyway.
I think it happened like this....after CTO Harrison Boyd had a city employee (was that you Mikey?) illegally wipe out the mayor's emails, he doesn't count on Mark Lewis and the LTC going off the reservation and ratting him out. He is then forced to shut them out and goes back to his home court of D.C. to rustle up a more loyal peep, David Sun and Sunblock, at an initial cost of 15k. Sunblock assures us they can find those pesky missing emails using some super secret gizmo technology the LTC and Carrolton Technologies don't have access to. Of course the 15k is just the appetizer and for their loyalty and compliance, Boyd inflates their contract towards 6 numbers and then has them selectively produce a string of harmless emails in an attempt to quell the controversy....strategically waiting until the near end of the mayor's term to throw that meatless bone to the hounds of inquisition.
You see Boyd has a history of tapping his home court resources when he needs help, i.e., Telecommunications Development Corp. (TDC), the city's current prime IT vendor who Boyd contracted last summer to handle things like....ohhh say....the same thing he payed SunBlock an extra 50k to do... create "data rentention and implementation policies". That sounds so technical doesn't it?
I wonder if David Sun can comment on exactly what SunBlock did to help the city accomplish the data retention and implementation policies. I realize the super secret method they used to retrieve the missing emails may fall under proprietary company methodology, but I would really like to find out exactly what SunBlock did to address "data retention" that our prime IT contractor TDC couldn't accomplish under their multi-million dollar contract. Is that too much to ask?
Come to think of it, let's ask TDC why they weren't capable of performing that task. Maybe we should place a call to TDC Vice-President Roger Richmond....you know Harrison Boyd's wife's sister's son. If we get him or Harrison on the phone, maybe we can also ask them how the IT staffing company, Strategic Staffing, didn't win the IT contract even though they were the lowest bidders.
I get it H.B., you gotta have people under your thumb who you can trust....like your nephew, huh?
That's some darn good cherry pickin'....but I'm curious...is it actually legal?