Greitens' self-destructing texts inspire call for attorney general investigation

[TexasTowelie]

JEFFERSON CITY -- Revelations by The Star that Gov. Eric Greitens uses an app that deletes text messages after they’ve been read outraged Missouri Democrats, who are calling on Attorney General Josh Hawley to open a formal investigation of the governor’s office.

They are also vowing to push legislation aimed at ensuring the state’s open records law isn’t being undermined.

On Thursday, The Star reported that Greitens and his senior governmental staff use Confide, an app that destroys a text message after it has been read. The app also prevents someone from saving, forwarding, printing or taking a screenshot of the text message.

Because the app deletes texts automatically after they’ve been read, it is impossible to determine whether the governor and his staff are using it to conduct state business out of view of the public or whether the texts should be considered a public record.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article188739489.html

[justhanginon]

1. This scumbag is nothing more than a mini-trump. He is as skeevy

as they come. Can't stand the man. Has this head up trump's nether regions as often as he can.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. This is a clear violation of the intent of the open recs law in MO

It was assumed that recs would be kept of all MO meetings/actions/etc. (where recs/minutes would be naturally kept). I am assuming (perhaps unfairly) that the law was written in a time when no such concept of disappearing texts existed then. However, minutes on any state business was to be kept (as a normal course of business) and then made available to the public if requested). This is a clear violation of the intent of this Open Recs law).