The email posted here on May 4 was obtained by me through lawful public records request from my office on July 13, 2007. All of the addressees on the email were present at the January 23, 2004 meeting except Howard Pohl and Ms. Rundle. Ms. Salomon, who was not my girlfriend at the time, was present in her role as office Senior Employment Counsel.

A public records request will reveal that to this day, after more than four years, no written response to that email was ever sent to me, nor, to my knowledge, to anyone else. The quoted statements made to me by Mr. Horn, Mr. Laeser, and Ms. Hoague, and memorialized by me soon after the January 23 meeting, have not been challenged in any written document that I am aware of, certainly not in any that I was ever provided.

Nor was the email, or the truth of its content, ever discussed in any meeting, at least any meeting involving me, in the four+ years since. None, that is, until the day that the email was published.

Then, in place of a scheduled meeting to discuss mundane division matters, there was an impromptu three hour meeting on the email. No reason was given for why this first discussion of the email was taking place over four years later. No reason was given for why there was never a written response.

After I was taken off the investigation, I had no more involvement in it. Legally, the email could not be obtained by me via public records as long as the investigation was open. Occasionally, I ran into my more than able successor, Richard Scruggs, and he and I briefly spoke about it: he hadn't gotten the police reports yet, then he got them, there was a meeting with the Medical Examiner, a meeting with Ms. Rundle. At some point it was clear to me that the state investigation was closed and no charges were going to be filed. Sometime after that I made the formal public records request for the email, and it was promptly provided to me.

However, in Monday's three hour meeting, I was told that the investigation was still open, and that therefore I shouldn't have published the email. I reminded the person who told me this that the public records request had been sent directly to him, and copied to Ted Mannelli, who was assuming my girlfriend's public records responsibility, upon her recusal. I still had the email that I had sent to him and Mr. Mannelli to verify.

On Tuesday of this week I made another public records request for all emails among all of the addressees on the February 23, 2004 email, plus Abbe Rifkin, concerning this investigation from January 16-30, 2004, and for May 5-6, 2008. These emails should reveal who said what to whom back in 2004, at a time when the events were fresh in their memory.