HARDIN CO.—Obfuscation: to make something obscure; to confuse; to muddy the waters.
It looks like Hardin County State’s Attorney Tara Wallace is doing exactly that.
After Jack busted her out this afternoon at her office, apparently Ms. Tara believed it would be cool to go on a F^c*book page and “clarify” what was going on, and from whence other media picked it up. Here’s what she posted on her Hardin County State’s Attorney Facebook page (don’t know how professional it is for her office to have such a thing, but hey….it’s Tara):
And while this is sensational, unprofessional, uncalled for, and a misdirection off the negative attention Jack’s attempted interview with her caused, it was a valiant effort on the part of Ms. Tara to throw people off from what’s REALLY going on. Because her tit’s in the wringer with THAT.
Recall the part of the interview where she told Jack to “FOIA for the phone records,” meaning FOIA her office?
We did. On May 31. We specifically asked for this:
Monthly phone records (calls in/out) for each phone line to/from the Hardin County State’s Attorney’s office from December 2, 2012 to the present, to include all county-issued or -funded cell phones;
All incoming/outgoing emails on all computers in the Hardin County State’s Attorney’s office from December 2, 2012 to the present;
All names that the Hardin County State’s Attorney has requested to be run through, and obtained run-through of, LEADS, from December 2, 2012 to the present.
But we of course didn’t FOIA her office. Because we knew better; we’re fairly certain her office doesn’t have a FOIA officer; instead we sent the FOIA to Jill Cowsert, County Clerk, the “Keeper of the Records” in Hardin County.
A little less than a week later, this is what we got back:
That was from Jill Cowsert. We know it wasn’t Jill that had that information; she wouldn’t know that. She got that from Ms. Tara. But we’ve been doing what we do longer than she’s been doing what she’s doing, and we know how it works. All state’s attorneys take that “out,” in that the judiciary cannot be FOIAd. But she is NOT the judiciary, as I pointed out in this next message:
Jill responded to that one by submitting a valid answer, with this codicil:
To which I responded with this:
But so far, we have received NOTHING in the mail. NOTHING. And so that office is in violation of a FOIA, and the attorney general’s Public Information Office will deal with them.
Hardin County prosecutor Tara Wallace
We were NOT FOIAing because of any issue with JT’s father, however. We’ve been hearing about that for the past two years now. This is not news to us. We don’t know if it’s the truth or not; but that’s not up to us to determine. What it’s up to is Ms. Tara, a judge and/or a jury.
And what we’re FOIA-ing about is a situation involving a pissy state’s attorney who doesn’t know what she’s doing in her job, and is trying to rope in anyone who says anything negative about her at all…and will do anything she can to cover up how she’s REALLY conducting business in her office.
I’ve just told her on her F^c*book page what she can do to set this right. She can start by coming clean about the documents we’ve FOIA’d for (and which she lied about in the vid—more obfuscation—telling us to FOIA her office when she knew we’d already FOIA’d for exactly what Jack was asking on camera.)
Otherwise, her little house of cards, which is crumbling as you read this, is going to be a complete disaster for everyone she’s targeting, the elder Mr. Fricker or no….but it might be a particular disaster for Tara Wallace if she doesn’t stop the obfuscating RIGHT NOW.