Kleinheider at Post Politics says the Bredesen administration is opening up the THP investigation in "a limited way" as the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) is called in to provide technical assistance. The THP presser reads:
Commissioner Mitchell has asked the TBI to conduct forensic examinations on the state-issued computers and other electronics Lt. Shirley had access to. That equipment has been surrendered to the TBI.
The TBI is already in the process of conducting off-line searches to determine if Lt. Shirley made unauthorized criminal history checks using the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). The NCIC is a computerized database of documented criminal justice information used by law enforcement agencies across the country. It is maintained by the FBI and is a completely separate database than the ICJSC.
Bill Hobbs sees some hope:
This is not good news - if you're the people who put Tennessee Highway Patrol Lt. Ronnie Shirley up to the nefarious business of compiling unauthorized criminal background checks on a few hundred Tennesseans, including critics of the THP and the Bredesen administration. It is, however, a step in the right direction in getting to the real and complete truth about the latest in a list of scandals involving the Bredesen administration and the THP.
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