{"id":24883,"date":"2014-03-28T08:43:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24883"},"modified":"2014-03-28T08:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:43:17","slug":"mcguinty-staffer-alleged-to-have-wiped-key-computer-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/mcguinty-staffer-alleged-to-have-wiped-key-computer-hard-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"McGuinty staffer alleged to have wiped key computer hard drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a perfectly simple, non-suspicious reason for the outgoing chief of staff of a provincial premier to arrange a non-government employee having access to key computers at a change of administration&#8230; because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2014\/03\/27\/computers-in-premiers-office-ordered-wiped\" target=\"_blank\">otherwise this would look particularly bad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Kathleen Wynne minority government went into serious damage control mode after the release of an OPP warrant which alleges criminal behaviour in the office of the premier.<\/p>\n<p>The explosive document, made public by a judge Thursday but not proven in court, alleges a former chief of staff for ex-premier Dalton McGuinty committed a criminal breach of trust by arranging for another staffer\u2019s techie boyfriend to access 24 desktop computers in the premier\u2019s office as Wynne took over the reins in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A committee investigating the Ontario Liberals\u2019 cancellation of gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga, at a loss of up to $1.1 billion, had already ordered the government to turn over all records related to that decision.<\/p>\n<p>Wynne said the allegations, if true, are \u201cdisturbing\u201d but she was not aware of and would not have condoned such activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not in charge of the former chief of staff, I did not direct the former chief of staff, I did not direct anyone in my office to destroy information, nor would I ever do that,\u201d Wynne said. \u201cAnd, in fact, we have changed the rules about the retention of information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OPP investigators probing the alleged illegal deletion of e-mails executed a search warrant last month on a Mississauga data storage facility used by the Ontario government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a perfectly simple, non-suspicious reason for the outgoing chief of staff of a provincial premier to arrange a non-government employee having access to key computers at a change of administration&#8230; because otherwise this would look particularly bad: The Kathleen Wynne minority government went into serious damage control mode after the release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,584,957,87,98,413],"class_list":["post-24883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","tag-computers","tag-daltonmcguinty","tag-kathleenwynne","tag-ontario","tag-police","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6tl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24884,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24883\/revisions\/24884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}