Last Friday, the New Mexico Attorney General's Office, released a "Report from the AG", link.
In it, Attorney General King acknowledges the tension between stakeholders right to know the truth about the spending of their power and their resources, and the legitimate need to keep at least some of that truth under wraps.
"One of the challenges of the AG's job is to properly manage requests for information from the general public, legislators and the media about ongoing investigations. ... For ethical and legal reasons, my office will have little to say about our investigations until and unless such information becomes public record, as in the filing of an indictment. This policy is utilized for everyone's protection and the preservation of the legal process."There is a line that separates the information that stakeholders have right to know, from the information that needs to be kept secret for legitimate reasons.
King would like New Mexicans to think that he is pushing the line toward full disclosure, out of respect for our right to know.
It could be argued that, he is not pushing the line, nearly hard enough.
You ask;
Why did it take years, literally, go get indictments in the housing authority scandal?They say;
So sorry, we can't answer that question "... for everyone's protection and the preservation of the legal process".Not surprisingly, if you ask Winston Brooks why evidence of felony criminal misconduct involving the leadership of the APS, has still not been surrendered to the DA, two and half years, and the expiration of statutes of limitation, after the scandal was reported in the Journal, link, he will give you the same answer;
So sorry,
we can't answer that question
"... for everyone's protection
and the preservation of the legal
process".
By which he means;
... for good ol' boys' protection, and the preservation of every legal loophole, technicality and weaselry that will except them from honest accountability, even to the law.
photo Mark Bralley
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