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."
It’s like 10 year olds who got caught cheating.
“Officials in Arizona’s Maricopa County are withholding materials subpoenaed by the state legislature”
Not the officials’ call.
Legislators rule, officials follow.
If there is a valid security concern, simply buy new machines.
Well yes, the lives of the federal and sheriff office would be endangered when they have to arrest alleged election fraud felons. But cops accept that risk every time they confront alleged felons.
How on earth could releasing this hardware/software put law enforcement personnel in danger?
It's something, but it's not an election.
As a prior network engineer and architect for Cisco systems (main provider of internet equipment) and as a current cyber security architect to many banks and financial institutions .... this is bogus.
Call in the NG and get the essential materials out of the hands of these filthy traitors and into the custody of the auditors! Then jail them for attempting to interfere.
This is mealy mouth crap from this apparat. The servers internal areas can be separated— digitally within any department— thus restricted to the Elections boards (isolate and hide any LEO personnel for example. This is another Maricopa lie on drilling down to the servers which REPORTED the results to the satellites- foreign servers and then back in to Maricopa. This is what they are trying to hide.
There is some bullcrap going on here and Maricopa perps are directing it. Senate can’t enforce the subpoena? They had better— need a copy of the original subpoena to prove these liars... as liars.
Now that is a real stretch aka bold face lie...
revealing the public IP address of the Sheriff’s Department, can be found out by anyone in a matter of minutes....a simple traceroute could do it....or do a nslookup on a website the sheriff has up....
Besides behind the routers they are using an ip address scheme that is not routable on the internet anyway....
They are using some type of Network Address Translation aka NAT to allow access from the Internet to a service that is behind the router and internal...
Methinks thoust protest too much.
Something rotten in Denmark here, and it ain’t the sausage.
5.56mm
Good signs that they are over the target.
Sounds like an admission of guilt to me.
Legit?...........Thoughts?......................
How on earth could releasing this hardware/software put law enforcement personnel in danger?
Because their IP addresses and time stamps may be stored on the router. Of course, if there were no shenanigans it would endanger nobody. But if there were, then it could expose any hacks and their potential monitoring of results in real time, making software or database adjustments etc via remote connection.
It's not the router that's the problem (for them) it's the information that may be stored on the router, or that may lead to information or conclusions e.g. "this was changed at X time, and done by Y IP address at Z time ergo it was changed by Person at IP address Y".
They’re caught! Send in the NG to seize everything.
Send the State Police and SIEZE the Routers, then ARREST Everyone there for FELONY OBSTRUCTION, and hold them WITHOUT BAIL for Being Dangerous to the State, just like in DC
i think we’re way past legal/illegal stage now and truly into the pure “what are you gonna do about it?” mode
So they’re using the CIA/FBI strategy. What a scam. They litterally HATE the cops.
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