Posted on 11/01/2004 5:20:32 PM PST by truth49
OLYMPIA—Washington's Boeing 7E7 Project Office and the Attorney General's office recently added to their series of misleading statements to the court in the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's (EFF) lawsuit for public records.
In February of this year, the state claimed under penalty of perjury that it did not have specific documents requested by EFF—documents central to understanding the legal authority for state officials to enter into the agreement with the Boeing Corporation. The attorney general's office argued in court that the state could not have violated the public records law if, in fact, the documents in question were not even in the state's possession. Last March, Superior Court Judge Pomeroy ruled in favor of the state, and we appealed.
As it turns out, the key documents were in the state's possession. On August 18, 2004, EFF obtained records that prove the state was not telling the truth back in February and did indeed have copies of at least two key records requested by EFF. The attorney general's office is now fighting our move to have this fact brought before the Appeals Court. Instead, state attorneys are demanding we go through the time and expense of filing a new lawsuit.
Ironically, in an October 25, 2004, legal brief, the attorney general's office claimed EFF never asked the court to force the 7E7 Project Office to turn over the documents. These would be the same documents the 7E7 Office claimed, under penalty of perjury, they didn't have. Apparently the state believes EFF should have challenged the trustworthiness of its February declarations made under the penalty of perjury. (We uncovered this evidence in August.)
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nick
Christine Pomeroy ought to be on the AG’s payroll. She “argues” their cases better than they do. Nothing but a state shill in a black robe.
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