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Related: About this forumThe mayor of Saanich, B.C. suspected his own staff was spying on him — and he was right
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-mayor-of-saanich-b-c-suspected-his-own-staff-was-spying-on-him-and-he-was-right/
Less than two weeks after being sworn in as mayor, Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell learned he was being spied upon.
A whistleblower sidled up to the rookie mayor at a community event, last December, and suggested the mayors own staff had bugged his municipal computer.
Distrustful of Saanichs top bureaucrats many of whom were loyal to the six-term incumbent that Atwell had just upset at the polls the mayor of Vancouver Islands largest municipality felt he had only one option left: Launch his own investigation.
Armed only with the recording app on his iPhone, Atwell began interviewing former and current staff in Saanichs computer department. He approached one employee outside a local recreation centre, hoping to catch him away from his managers so he could speak freely. When the mayor tracked down the technician whod installed the tracking software, he went to the mans home on the employees day off to record their conversation....
Its cold comfort for Atwell, a former Apple software engineer. His own council publicly portrayed him as a paranoid oddball and he became a national laughingstock in the two months after the spyware allegations became public.
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The mayor of Saanich, B.C. suspected his own staff was spying on him — and he was right (Original Post)
shockedcanadian
Mar 2015
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Rainforestgoddess
(436 posts)1. This is my mayor
And I'm glad he's been vindicated.
arikara
(5,562 posts)3. They've sure been hostile to the poor guy
Do you think its revenge for beating Frank Leonard?
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)2. And of course the cops are involved...
"Atwell has asked the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner to review Saanich police conduct, as well as the conduct of the regional traffic unit that has pulled him over four times without issuing any infractions."
delrem
(9,688 posts)4. This is fairly local to me, and I smiled about this one.
I don't care so much about the mayor's policies as about the triumph of the process.
I think that's just fucking cool.