Maybe the other sources the lieutenant mentioned in his email was that he already new "Yore" was a lier and that he had plenty of reference material?

Just a thought.....

On 6/7/08, restorative.justice.for.all@gmail.com < restorative.justice.for.all@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Aram,
>
> You maybe left waiting right into the next millennium to here back from
> Lt. Tim Morgan so I will share my thoughts and observations. First,
> "transparency and accountability are the most important to the legitimacy of
> local officials."
>
> It is way to easy and cowardly to say; "Please remove me from this list.
> I receive information from other area's. If you do not I will request your
> e-mail be listed as spam and I will not be able to communicate with you via
> e-mail."
>
> Again, "transparency and accountability are the most important to the
> legitimacy of local officials." Lt. Tim Morgan, is as of this writing, as
> far as I know, is still a "public" servant of our community.
>
> And in this capacity he should welcome and embrace all matters of community
> concern. If not, them he should seek-out other employment better suited.
>
> The "transparency" with respect to the PAPD and IPA are if fact, shrouded
> and cloaked in secrecy, ambiguity and obfuscation. Any attempts for
> clarification are met at times with, "please take me off your list" or no
> clear answers. A tool-of-trade.
>
> In other words, "the legitimacy of local officials" are hidden under rocks
> to be discovered and when done so, as you have, they suffer third degree
> burns when exposed to *police sun-light*.
>
> Unless Lt. Tim Morgan can identify one constitutional reason, just one as
> to why he should be removed from the "list" or the list Mr. Genanco claims
> I invented / created he should remain.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 6/7/08, abjpd1@juno.com <abjpd1@juno.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Lt.Tim Morgan ( Palo Alto Police Department):
>>
>> Please consider the following in response to your request that I remove
>> you from an e-mail list.
>>
>> 1) *This is not my list--to remove you from*.
>>
>> 2) *As a public employee your e-mail address is a public record* ( much
>> like mine was when I was employed as a public servant for Santa Clara
>> County/public defender.) I received many e-mails that in a non-public
>> employee capacity I might have preferred not to receive. However, as a
>> public employee I believed --and continue to believe-- that it was part of
>> my responsibility to hear from the very public that paid me even if the
>> e-mails did not necessarily reflect my views on any given issue. In fact, I
>> would have considered it ignorant and arrogant on my part to tell a member
>> of the public who I serve-- and who arguable pays at least part of my
>> salary-- not to e-mail because their view or views on a particular subject
>> was different than mine or even offensive to me. *Last resort I could
>> delete an unwanted e-mail*
>>
>> 3) *On issues of police practices --like the PAPD use and possession of
>> illegal Tasers--I and others--regularly e-mail many public officials* (
>> check the list you will see DA's, PD's, Judges, city councils, state
>> assembly--- and many others in law enforcement, etc.) in an attempt--no
>> matter how futile it may appear at first blush--to influence public policy
>> through contact with public officials such as yourself.
>>
>> 4) I* believe-- as a citizen advocate and a member of the California
>> State Bar-- I not only have a 1st Amendment right to so advocate but a
>> legal responsibility to speak out* when I believe that you and other
>> members of law enforcement ( particularly relevant to my home town
>> police) carry, use and possess* weapons of torture and death in
>> violation of the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ban on cruel and
>> unusual punishment*.
>>
>> 5) Similarly, I* believe that principals of international law i.e., Nuremberg
>> Principals --require that I speak out against the use of such
>> illegal weapons by members of my government or I am complicit* in any
>> deaths or injuries that result-- and like you could be held criminally
>> liable. Finally, I believe members of law enforcement who use this illegal
>> weapon will ultimately have to answer for their crimes.
>>
>> 5) Okay, Lt. Morgan --I look forward to any view you may have with respect
>> to my position on this topic.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Aram James
>>
>>
>>
>> Aram,
>> Please remove me from this list. I receive information from other
>> area's. If you do not
>> I will request your e-mail be listed as spam and I will not be able to
>> communicate with
>> you via e-mail
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>> -- restorative.justice.for.all@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> *Mike! "Yore" mama called.........there's been a "brain transplant"
>> recall. Apparently, the brain you received was that of a "pathological
>> lier".
>> *
>> Becky....outstanding artical!
>>
>>
>> On 6/6/08, restorative.justice.for.all@gmail.com <
>> restorative.justice.for.all@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> "Sgt. Yore lies. If he doesn't lie outright, he lies by omission."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Benest may have initiated detectives' Texas trip
>>> Former Arts & Culture Director Leon Kaplan and Sgt. Michael Yore at odds
>>> over interview
>>>
>>> by Becky Trout <http://www.paloaltoonline.com/staff/mailto.php?e=btrout>
>>> Palo Alto Weekly Staff
>>> City Manager Frank Benest and former Assistant City Manager Emily
>>> Harrison may have played a direct role in the criminal investigation of the
>>> Palo Alto Children's Theatre, the Weekly learned Wednesday.
>>>
>>> Police Chief Lynne Johnson said Thursday that Benest had nothing to do
>>> with the trip, however.
>>>
>>> Assistant City Attorney Donald Larkin also said Benest was not behind the
>>> trip.
>>>
>>> The investigation heretofore has been characterized as an independent
>>> probe conducted by the Police Department, with virtually all statements
>>> about the probe coming from Johnson.
>>>
>>> Sgt. Michael Yore, who headed the investigation, told former Arts &
>>> Culture Director Leon Kaplan (who supervised the Children's Theatre) during
>>> an October 2007 interview in Texas that he had flown there because "Frank is
>>> just truly trying to get to the bottom of things," according to a transcript
>>> of the interview with Yore.
>>>
>>> "The more I looked into (the Children's Theatre's finances), the more
>>> unhappy I became, as did Emily, as did Frank," Yore said, according to the
>>> transcript.
>>>
>>> The transcript confirms Kaplan's recollection that Yore told him he had
>>> been sent to Texas by Benest.
>>>
>>> But Johnson said Thursday that "Emily and Frank didn't have anything to
>>> do with (the trip)."
>>>
>>> She said Yore suggested the trip to her and Capt. Mark Venable, Yore's
>>> boss, who approved it.
>>>
>>> "I have no idea why (Yore) said that. They didn't have anything to do
>>> with the investigation," she said. She said Yore might have mentioned the
>>> city manager's name "to try to push a point or tell the seriousness of it."
>>>
>>> The transcript also shows discrepancies between Kaplan's comments to Yore
>>> and those he made to the Weekly months later.
>>>
>>> The Weekly published an account of the visit on Feb. 29 based on a
>>> telephone interview with Kaplan, which provided the first public
>>> confirmation that Yore was investigating the theater's long-running costume
>>> sales and kids' trips to festivals, led by staff. Kaplan formerly supervised
>>> theater Director Pat Briggs but moved to Texas in 2004.
>>>
>>> Yore and other city officials have stated that Kaplan's account of the
>>> interview was inaccurate.
>>>
>>> In the "Follow-Up" section of the police report released June 2, Yore
>>> wrote that he needed to "reinterview Kaplan to determine whether he lied
>>> during his Oct. 31, 2007, taped interview with me or if he lied to the Palo
>>> Alto Weekly when they reported his facts of the case."
>>>
>>> He also prepared an approximately six-page list comparing the Weekly's
>>> story with the original interview transcript.
>>>
>>> The two men disagree on their conversation about costume sales, a
>>> practice in which the Friends of the Palo Alto Children's Theatre, a
>>> nonprofit support group, would sell the theater's used costumes and kept the
>>> proceeds.
>>>
>>> Kaplan told the Weekly that after explaining the Children's Theatre
>>> costume sales procedure to Yore, Yore — who views the costume sales as a
>>> violation of city policies — responded, "Don't you think that (it is)
>>> essentially embezzlement?"
>>>
>>> In his list, Yore points out that he never used the word embezzlement or
>>> any word with a similar meaning during the interview. The transcript does
>>> not contain the word "embezzlement."
>>>
>>> Kaplan told the Weekly the arrangement with the Friends regarding costume
>>> sales was reviewed by the city attorney. But to Yore, Kaplan implied the
>>> costume-sales agreement with the Friends was more informal, according to the
>>> transcript.
>>>
>>> When Yore questioned Kaplan about the costumes and the city's surplus
>>> policy, Kaplan is quoted as telling the detective: "I actually remember ...
>>> I mean, my memory here is very dim. But I remember that there was several
>>> times, uh, that Pat did go through the surplus property process and we made
>>> our request to the city manager to uh, dispose of the ... items. Now, if
>>> they were costumes, I can't remember that. But if they were something else,
>>> I can't remember that. I kind of think they were costumes."
>>>
>>> In a Tuesday e-mail to the Weekly, Kaplan angrily challenged the excerpt
>>> and his portrayal in the police report.
>>>
>>> "Sgt. Yore lies. If he doesn't lie outright, he lies by omission."
>>>
>>> "The way this is transcribed makes it seem as if I did not know what was
>>> going on. This is not at all what I was attempting to convey to Yore. I
>>> probably did put some qualifiers in my remarks because I had been away for
>>> four years and I did not have, at the moment he came to visit, access to any
>>> verifying documents. Nevertheless, I never said, 'I kind of think they were
>>> costumes.'
>>>
>>> "Of course they were costumes; that's why we called it a costume sale,"
>>> Kaplan wrote. "That's why, when we made the annual request to the city
>>> manager to surplus the items, we identified the items as costumes."
>>>
>>> Kaplan said Yore also only quoted a portion of city policies relating to
>>> declaring property surplus and not the part about how the city manager can
>>> designate items as surplus.
>>>
>>> The transcript also revealed other discrepancies. The interview took
>>> place on Halloween, not in mid-November as Kaplan told the Weekly. The woman
>>> accompanying Yore, who introduced herself to Kaplan only by her first name,
>>> is a management specialist with the police department, not a forensic
>>> accountant as reported.
>>>
>>> Yore did not ask about the theater construction in the early 1990s or
>>> mention a "blank purchase order," according to the interview transcript.
>>> Kaplan brought up the theater construction project, and Yore showed Kaplan a
>>> document that had been signed by Briggs rather than Kaplan himself, the
>>> transcript indicates.
>>>
>>> The transcript also does not include any reference to a discussion of the
>>> middle-management unionization effort or a "climate of fear," topics Kaplan
>>> told the Weekly were included.
>>>
>>> In his list, Yore also pointed out an error made by the Weekly: No
>>> traveler's checks were found in the theater office. The checks in the office
>>> were stolen in the June 18 burglary.
>>>
>>> Kaplan has consistently maintained that Briggs, the late Assistant
>>> Director Michael Litfin and other theater staff members did not intend to
>>> break any laws.
>>>
>>> He told Yore: "Pat is very good. She's sloppy, but she's very good about
>>> retaining stuff."
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
>>> attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things
>>> than power."
>>>
>>> David Brin quotes (American science-fiction writer b.1950
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
>> attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things
>> than power."
>>
>> David Brin quotes (American science-fiction writer b.1950
>
>
>
>
> --
> "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
> attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things
> than power."
>
> David Brin quotes (American science-fiction writer b.1950
>

-- 
"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things
than power."

David Brin quotes (American science-fiction writer b.1950