Posted on 05/06/2021 10:50:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
Officials in Arizona's Maricopa County are withholding materials subpoenaed by the state legislature as part of its audit of the county's 2020 election, claiming that surrendering them would constitute a security risk for both law enforcement and federal agencies.
A Monday letter sent from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office to Ken Bennett, the former Arizona secretary of state and the liaison between the state Senate and the auditors, said the county had elected not to turn over "several routers" requested by the legislature due to an alleged "significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies."
"We had previously believed that the risk would be eliminated by redacting the law enforcement data on the routers and not producing it," the letter states. "But we were informed that redaction did not eliminate the risk."
Bennett told Just the News that the state Senate's subpoena had requested "access or control of all routers and tabulators ... used in connection with the administration of the 2020 election" as well as "the public IP of the [routers]."
"I don't know why the routers in a tabulation and election center have anything to do with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office or numerous federal agencies," Bennett said, noting that "the sheriff's department and the Maricopa County tabulation and election center aren't even in the same building."
Maricopa County spokesman Fields Moseley on Thursday afternoon said the county had "determined the information contained in Maricopa County's routers can be used as blueprints to intercept sensitive county data."
"Maricopa County has more than 50 different county departments, and the routers the Senate subpoena commanded the County produce support all of these departments, not just elections operations," Moseley said. "This includes critical law enforcement data that, by law, cannot be disclosed, as well as Maricopa County residents' protected health information and full social security numbers."
"By providing the routers, or even virtual images of routers, sensitive data and the lives of law enforcement personnel could be endangered," he added, stating that the routers "remain in the county's custody for the time being."
I’d say those who withhold the machines would be at a much greater risk at this point. The truth is going to come out one way or another.
Hmmm...
Since when do demoncrats care about law enforcement officer’s lives? I swear this is the Twilight Zone.
The officials they are protecting are themselves, for criminal prosecution for election fraud.
This.
It's MUCH more interesting than the original event.
The lie, like all lies, just grows and grows as more lies have to be told to cover the original one.
Stop it.
They care about Comey's life. They care about Stzrok's life. They care about McCabe's life.
And they care about the lives of all the local LEOs they used to pull this off.
Oh well if security is at stake, we just have to trust that they counted right. I mean, who are we to demand transparency if it comes at the price of “security”?
C'mon man! It causes global warming too.
The democrats are trying their damnest to suppress this audit because they already lnow what the outcome will show. They cheated! They will interfere with turning over the hardware because tthey know what it will show. If people do not know they cheated by now, they never will!!
They want to clear the deck for this fight.
Maybe it's the Surströmming.
At risk? Why? Could it be because if we knew the truth, we'd* lynch them?The government wants to disarm us after 244 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!*not us keyboard warriors, of course, but those other We The People...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
Suddenly the left is worried about protecting the lives of LEOs?
Sure.
Send the National Guard with a search a seizure warrant.
“The lie, like all lies, just grows and grows as more lies have to be told to cover the original one.”
Well-stated, Jim Noble
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
I am not sure how you know that!
Simple cover-up! Only takes one file dump to bust the perps!
The don’t need logic or truth. All they need is cover for a Democrat judge.
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