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Task force vote shows who Potter listens to
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
I 'm starting to think our understated mayor is showing signs of being a major control freak.
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And Potter is in a battle of wills with the FBI because he wants to be gifted with a level of security clearance no other mayor has or seems to want.
A few days ago, the feds blinked. Robert Jordan, special agent in charge of Portland's FBI division, indicated he would recommend a top-secret clearance to police Chief Derrick Foxworth.
"It seems to me that was a good compromise," says Hillsboro police Chief Ron Louie, who joined with Portland a few years back in denying the FBI's request to interview Muslim men
Horrible OP piece, touted as real news, of course.
And here you Potter being threatened with no funding, and trying to scare the public - no money for you if you don't pass it..
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If Portland backs out of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, we could possibly find ourselves standing alone -- without all the tools, equipment and training we need to keep our city safe from terrorists. And by association, we unintentionally drag the other Portland-area cities and counties into the funding desert with us.
And the feds apparently are not above retaliation. On Friday, an
official with the Office for Domestic Preparedness under the
Department of Homeland Security in Washington, D.C., sent a one-paragraph e-mail canceling a week of free technical training for law enforcement agencies unless Portland stays in the task force.
the vote is tonight...
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=76133Portland City Council to vote tonight on task force situation
PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Police Chief Derrick Foxworth says he wants the city to remain a part of the federal task force on terrorism.
But Mayor Tom Potter and the City Council are considering whether to drop out of the task force led by the FBI.
There's a dispute over the potential conflict between state and federal law on how investigations are conducted.