This is not a good sign. When a congressional committee demands evidence that is a BFD in anybody’s book. And to risk being in contempt of congress is a massively stupid thing to do. Violating federal law is not the same as a parking ticket. Be that as it may, the Cyber Ninjas don’t seem to be too troubled. But then again, they don’t exactly operate on the same plane of reality as the rest of us. The Hill:
The contractor that is conducting the Republican-led audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Ariz. has missed a deadline to provide a Congressional panel with information about the audit, the Arizona Republic reported.
Cybersecurity firm Cyber Ninjas had until July 28 to provide the House Oversight and Reform Committee with information as part of a probe it announced a few weeks prior.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.), the panel’s top Democrats, asked Cyber Ninjas CEO Douglas Logan for documents and communications related to the company’s audit procedures, funding sources and other issues. […]
Maloney’s office told the news outlet in a statement that Cyber Ninjas must “provide complete transparency over its questionable activities and sources of funding, and answer Congress’s questions without further delay.”
“If it does not, we will use all tools available to ensure we get the answers we need to protect the integrity of federal elections,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, Arizona Central is reporting
The Senate said it will turn over records in its possession but not those held by Cyber Ninjas, and appealed the decision. The Superior Court declined to grant the Senate a “stay” permitting the Senate to wait to turn over the records while the appeal is heard, but the Appeals Court granted that request.
Langhofer said Wednesday during a hearing on that appeal that Cyber Ninjas would have to turn over about 60,000 documents if it’s forced to comply with the Superior Court order, and that the Senate does not believe that its contractor’s records fall under the Arizona Public Records Law.
“Going forward, the Senate expects to produce all records pertaining to the audit that are in its possession,” he said. “This is a reasonable status quo. This is an acceptable state of affairs.”
He said that forcing Cyber Ninjas to provide its records was not envisioned by the Arizona Public Records Law and that if the courts interpreted the law that way, it would increase costs of contracted services the state government uses because all contractors would become fearful they might have to produce internal records when someone seeks them through a public records request.
I don’t think you need to be a legal giant to figure out that a situation like a presidential election being disputed is of compelling enough public interest that it will override the consideration of possible increased contracting costs. I don’t think that argument is going to fly. It appears that this is going to drag out for a while.
The Arizona Senate hired them, so they’re state contractors and their records should be public. You can bet all the other contractors already know this.
pop all involved with the fraudit, from the AZ senate to the “ninjas” themselves, into the pokey. Let them think about their intransigence from within a jail cell. Let them take the time which they will have aplenty in jail/prison. I’ve had enough of the bull-sh*t.
The big lie is becoming the Swiss cheese it always was behind closed doors, the sunlight might just sanitize the truth enough to isolate and expose the money trails … the billionaires and mere millionaires, don’t like their investments to go into the wind without proper kick-backs …
If the source is modified investments from GOP campaign monies and has even a hint of proven criminal actions it will be one of the biggest hurts and foundation-cracking the GOP has ever suffered …
Right now, the Pandemic has and IS screaming ahead … Trump’s incompetence has created a death blow to a rising number of citizens, screwing up everything in the beginning to keep, “His Numbers”, lower so HE would not look bad, then raging about masks and vaccines via incompetent GOP stars, to top it all off … the GOP along with their clueless orange shitgibbon are now pushing for a cool million citizens dead … sadly, a high percentage of avoidable deaths …
Those idiots attacking our Capitol building for WHAT? What’s left out there as a reason for treason?
When Congress is demanding the records, it does not seem to me that state “public records law” is even relevant. Respond or be held in contempt.