The AG’s office contradicted Okubo regarding whether they were consulted on Fukino’s statements.
OIP Opinion Letters and UIPA make it clear that once information has been disclosed (published) it is no longer confidential, and once a department has “informed the public” the created and maintained documents used to inform the public become public themselves.
Buckeye Texan has this one exactly right. Hawaii is violating its own laws, and they know it.
A “refusal to corroborate” is a reporter’s spin on a statement of “no comment.”
It was Janice Okubo who told WorldNetDaily that Dr. Fukino’s two media releases were run through the AG’s office which is pretty standard fare for media statements by agency heads.
http://24ahead.com/hi-ag-mark-bennett-reviewed-and-approved-fukino-727-statemen
If Hawaii is “violating their own laws” they can be challenged. Where’s the challenge?
I’m not interested in taking the word for anything of someone who thinks that Grand Juries have been eliminated by “the government.”
What is the motivation for a Republican administration in Hawaii to be assisting a liberal Democrat President?
Governor Lingle gave an endorsement speech for Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention.
Janice Okubo also told both Mark Niesse of the AP and myself in a UIPA response that they can print the 1961 birth index. Now they’re saying something else.
She told Niesse that they hadn’t received any money yet; my money order was sitting in their office at the beginning of that work day.
She told Niesse that they were asking the AG whether they could be allowed to not offer the 1961 birth index. When I requested to see the communications to and from the HDOH regarding whether the 1961 birth index must be disclosed I was told there were no records responsive to my request.
Okubo is a liar. I just don’t know any better way to say it.
And Lingle and Fukino can’t get their stories straight. If those two were considered witnesses they would both be suspect because their stories don’t line up - documentably don’t line up. They can’t agree on whether Obama’s records were treated differently, who initiated the peek at Obama’s records, or what Fukino actually said about Obama’s birth. IOW, their testimonies contradict each other on almost every point.
I’ve already stated many times why there aren’t lawsuits in Hawaii. If you were dealing with these people you would know the money would be wasted because the laws are being blatantly violated while the Ombudsman and OIP look on with their fingers in their ears.
I said that I didn’t know much about it and invited anybody to correct me, but that it seemed like nobody was paying attention to grand juries - a point which El Sordo said is pretty standard. If you’re going to throw rocks at me because of the way I handled that, then I guess you’re a little too fragile for me to be real with.
I also have stated that I believe the motivation for a Republican governor to cooperate with a liberal president is sticks and carrots - and Obama has offered a LOT of carrots to Hawaii. Someone from Hawaii corrected me on a comment I had made that the Hawaiian sovereignty bill that Obama pledged to sign being the wish of everybody in Hawaii; I had thought it was because nearly all of the leaders in Lingle’s government have signed a petition in support of Hawaiian sovereignty.
I think most people have figured out that the D and R labels don’t always make a lot of difference. It’s been a tough lesson for a lot of us to learn, but it seems like you were playing hooky that day because it hasn’t sunk in that just because somebody has an R behind their name, it doesn’t mean that they are above being bought or bowing to political pressure, especially in a really corrupt place.
I think the person Hawaiians should be looking at with potential hope may be Lt Gov Duke Aiona. I can’t know for sure, but I think he may have been the person who forced the HDOH to post their administrative rules online as required by law - a tremendous act of courage, given that those rules revealed MASSIVE corruption on the part of Fukino. He may be the only guy in Hawaii’s government who has a pair.