Ep. 2 The Obstruction Playbook
Washington’s bureaucrats weren’t just slow-walking transparency—they were engineering its demise. In Episode 2, host Jamie Nixon exposes how state agencies, led by WaTech, quietly adopted a Microsoft Teams auto-deletion policy that wiped out 50 million public records per week. And now? They're calling critical records “transitory” just because they were sent in chat.
We dig into the cynical legal arguments used to defend mass deletion, hear from whistleblowers and internal agency voices, and debut a damning unredacted memo from the Attorney General’s Office warning that the state’s Microsoft setup wasn’t compliant with public records law.
It’s not a tech glitch. It’s a playbook designed to obstruct, deny, and delete.
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