the third pic? it is a good thing that dinner was hours ago.....

BREAKING NEWS: WITCHHUNT CONFIRMED!  THE AUDIT WAS PURE BULLSHIT!

$100,000 and over a year and for what?  For some risque photos?  Come on, what happened to all the tin hats' and Bobo's bitching and moaning about how the audit will reveal all kinds of evilness and corruption?!  The tin hats have been screaming their heads off that the audit would reveal all kinds of evil activity and in the end, it was $100,000 to find some naughty pictures.

Yes, naughty pictures need to be kept off of town computers, but come on, $100,000?  Bullshit.  A witchhunt confirmed.  A WITCHHUNT CONFIRMED!!!!!!!!

slagisDB wrote:

as unattractive as she is, just wait til she opens her mouth....

Careful what you wish for.

Wareham BOS 2010-10-27 Wed 6-42-38pm

I repeat - A WITCH HUNT CONFIRMED!!!

The Hypocrite Elite said this audit would reveal massive corruption, evildoing, crimes against humanity, vile power elite bastard money laundering schemes, businesses being run on company computers, and impending space alien invasions.

But in the end - just a bunch of bullshit. 

Mark Oct. 27, 2010 on your calendars, folks.  It's the day the Hypocrite Elite was exposed finally, once and for all, for being completely full of shit.

BOBO IS A FAT BASTARD WITH A BEARD EATS TOO MANY DONUTS FATTY

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did they prove who harrased mary ann silvia ,the answer was no, did they prove someone running a business from a town hall computor, the answer no , did they prove someone useing a computor was  xmass shoping during there town hall work maybe yes or maybe no ,they could be takeing a break  and got on the computor on there break , and as far as a  skin expossed a computor looks for skin showed , how about a girl in a swimsuit from sports illustrated read by some one on there lunch,    and how come they did not read sanenguits computor  ,how come this snake did not get his computor  read ,boy what a fairness issue is this.

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Only 80 of the town's 300 town computers audited.  What conclusion is there other than this was nothing more than a witch hunt?  Politicians flushing taxpayer dollars down the toilet as part of their neverending vendettas.

The Hypocrite Elite swore up and down that this audit would reveal untold tales of evil and corruption and in the end - nothing.  .

Ham.I know I've bumped this "toon" before..but (in it) you had the results of the the audit pegged over 16 months ago. Just think of all the money the taxpayer's would have saved had Torres just watched your "Sweet Brucey and Friends" episodes! And what's with having the results at a "quickie" BoS meeting when most folks who give a shit are..y'know..getting home from work and trying to get over to Town Meeting on time? Is that transparency? 80K (or whatever) doesn't buy what it used to..

Imagine, as say..Article 92 at Town Meeting..."I move favorable action to appropriate Eighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000) to "audit" Eighty (80) out of three hundred (300) town owned computers..to determine if anyone had ever viewed nudey photos and/or visited online gambling, or Bill Whitehouse's, website's at any time, or to do or act in any manner relative thereto."

How do you think that would've gone over??

Hamatron5000 wrote:

Sweet Brucey and Friends - Episode 3 - You Dirty Rat, See?

TBW
P-SPAN

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Next time you want to piss away $100,000.00 for a shitty investigation, let me know. I have a lot of assholes I am aware of that will be glad to rape you and take your money and produce a joke of a report that a 10 year old student could have submitted.

What a joke! Coupled with the IG report on MM, it is indeed earth shattering!

If I was on the BOS, I'd be demanding money back. I'd want to see documentation of all work performed, broken down by the the hour and cost per hour. Not that I would imply that some half assed lawyer out of Town would deliberately pad the expenses to the Town of Hicks.

..such a douche..

Life changing bobo ????   Ha lol

Word has it that the power elite had their expert IT guys swoop in and delete all the life changing results before the sneaky overspending saviors of wareham could react. This could be the only explanation because bobo almighty is never wrong!
Maybe they will have a lawyer explain why the leadership did not consult the director of it and save the town serious money. This has to rank high on the list of poor financial decisions and reinforces why two of the selectmen or former selectmen.

Computer audit called 'distressing'

By Steve Decosta
sdecosta@s-t.com
October 28, 2010 12:00 AM

WAREHAM — A review of the audit of 67 town-owned owned computers begun 17 months ago shows that "the amount of time on non-work-related websites is excessive," attorney Steven Torres said after reporting his findings to selectmen Wednesday.

But many of the numbers he presented didn't seem to match his dire statement and at least one selectman expressed relief that the data showed less abuse than had been feared.

"It's very distressing to find that we had any hits at all," selectmen Chairman Jane Donahue said. "It's very distressing that people are spending any workplace time as the record shows."

But "it is a relief there is not more abuse than there is," she said.

Selectmen launched the computer audit in May 2009, hiring Global Digital Forensics to copy and analyze the hard drives of 84 town-owned computers. Torres was hired in June to assess GDF's findings.

"The results of the computer audit clearly show a pattern of usage by multiple users of town computers that violates the Internet use policy," Torres wrote in his report. He said he reviewed the drives to determine the amount of time spent on non-work-related websites for shopping, gaming or pornography and for the existence of inappropriate or sexually explicit images.

"There are clearly a lot of people spending a lot of time in places where they don't belong," Torres said, citing such sites as MySpace, Facebook, matchmaker.com, britneyspears.com and pokerroom.com.

The "executive summary" he presented to selectmen, however, doesn't detail the number of people who visited inappropriate websites or the amount of time spent on them.

Asked about his finding of inappropriate or sexually explicit images, Torres said, "the raw number I have now indicate that 15 percent of computer disks had inappropriate images on them."

Torres, who serves as Fall River's corporation counsel, said he has presented his specific figures on abuse to Town Administrator Mark Andrews. "The town administrator has a full report, identifying by machine and individual the number of non-work-related sites we were able to identify that people had visited."

Torres said he has scheduled a meeting with Andrews to review the data, after which the town administrator would "issue corrective action letters" and make sure the town's Internet policy is adhered to in the future.

Keith Clark of the Dover, N.H.-based IT firm Networks At Home, told the board his firm had conducted a less exhaustive review of 17 Police Department computers, overseen at all times by a department representative to protect sensitive information. That review of 16 hard drives (one was damaged beyond repair) involved only Internet word searches.

"We searched for the word 'sex,'" Clark said, and found that, from 2005 through 2009, it came up 79 times. A search for "porn" in the same time period uncovered just two hits.

"If I was a police officer and I was looking for Level 3 sex offenders, the word sex would have been found in a word search of my computer," Selectman Stephen Holmes said. "That could all be related to ongoing investigations."

While the selectmen never have said what they were looking for when ordering the computer audit last year, the minutes of a May 26 executive session, later ruled improper by the Plymouth County district attorney, listed six reasons, including the scope of blogging on an anti-selectmen website, the possibility of outside businesses being run on town computers and the possibility of double logs being kept by the Police Department.

The review did not address the issues of outside businesses or the police log. The Police Department computers had accessed Warehamobserver.com 200 times.

In receiving Torres and Clark's reports, Donahue and Andrews vowed to "take the proper action" after review of the detailed material.

Selectmen authorized a $7,500 payment to Torres in June to compile a report based on GDF's findings, and his report has been delayed on several occasions. In addition to the payment authorized to Torres, the audit, which some critics have labeled a witch hunt, has cost the town more than $58,000.

The town has been billed $46,000 by GDF, $10,103 by town counsel Kopelman & Paige for work related to the audit, and $1,898 by Yunits Associates of Brockton, which represented the town before in grand jury proceedings conducted by the Plymouth County district attorney.

Neither Andrews nor Clark would reveal the amount being paid to Networks At Home. "They're still working with us," Andrews said.

Since the audit was initiated in May 2009, the town has blocked computer access to 13 websites, Andrews said.

On Friday, May 22, 2009, the day before the long Memorial Day weekend, with most town employees on a mandated work furlough, a team of computer experts from GDF copied the hard drives of most town-owned computers.

Others, including those at the Wareham Free Library, Municipal Maintenance Department and sewage treatment plant, were copied shortly thereafter.

After at least two town departments complained, the District Attorney's Office seized the disks and conducted a grand jury investigation, although the office never revealed what it was looking for on the disks. The disks were returned to the town in March.

OH BOBO, LIFE CHANGING EVENTS? YES IT WAS A LIFE CHANGING EVENT. 100,000 DOLLARS WAS SPENT ON THIS WITCHHUNT THAT THE TAXPAYERS OF WAREHAM WILL NEVER GET BACK. NO WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION FOUND, NO ONLINE GAMBLING, NO RUNNING BUSINESSES ON TOWNS COMPUTER, NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

BOBO YOU ARE TRULY A LIAR......THATS ALL I CAN SAY RIGHT NOW

Get your money back NOW!

Tell the lawyer you will sue his ass. If he doesn't like it, sue his ass.

Incompetent asshole. Not my opinion, fact. Sue me, asshole.

After I remove your license to practice when the Mass. Bar Board of Overseers discovers that you are a fraud, you will be lucky to sell bubblegum on Main St. (Make sure you get a vendor's license, numb-nuts.).

What a totally incompetent joke.

I hope someone calls the TA or their members of the BOS and tell them to hold up final payment to this asshole.

Why get screwed twice by the same idiot?

I have a 400 page investigation I did for the County I live in. I charged them $2500.00. Because I am stupid? Maybe. Mostly because it is government and I have always lowered my prices for government. I am paying for it!

It took me 7 working days. I am not a pig. I did it on my own, used the client'ts computer equipment, and finished it in a reasonable time.

Ever hear of that, asshole?

Bosoxx wrote:

This whole damn thing began with a racial slur.

(For those just joining us, Wareham Courier Editor David R. Smith wrote an editorial  a year ago April describing warehamobserver.com as a "dartboard".*)

Read the thread below in its brief entirety and tell me again it all began with a racial slur.

2009-04-24 23:06:50
Posted by billw


*Shout if the Wareham Courier deletes the link. I kept copies.

Auto-edited on 2020-08-11 to update URLs

Last edited by billw (2010-10-29 00:36:33)

Thought I would just bring up one more point to this whole fiasco.  Pornography has no place in the workplace (ofcourse excluding pornography workplaces).  A calendar of half dressed firefighters to half dressed lingure models are subjective to the viewer.  They are extremely different (IMO) than a picture of two consenting adults engaging in sexual acts.  Some people are offended by Victoria Secret catalogs.  Again, all in the eye of the beholder.  I do not know what images were found on any town owned computers.

But one thing I will not allow is Slager or anyone from his cult to be the moral compass of this town.  In Slagers Jeers section he stated: "Some people will never understand that pornography isn’t a joke to a lot of women ..."  They have also spoke about the ill effects that pornography has on families while using this as a scare tactic that it will harm children inadvertantly.  They are using this as a scare tactic and trying to be the morale police now.

  How can he speak for "a lot of woman"?  I have to wonder if Slager knows this because he may be a woman? It is the only logical conclusion I can come to.  How else does he know how "a lot of woman" feel?  Does he have inside sources that he will never name due to his word of protecting his sources?