Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and his team used Signal, a messaging application with an auto-delete feature, to have secret communications about the sanctuary city’s immigration crisis.
KCNC-TV revealed the scandal in a Thursday report, explaining that the mayor and 14 of his senior advisers, appointees, and lawyers created a “Strike Force” group on the application to have sensitive discussions that would otherwise have been accessible to the public through open records requests. Instead, the end-to-end encryption software and its auto-delete feature concealed their communications.
‘Giving the impression that we are doing something we don’t want the public to see.’
Joshua Posner, the mayor’s director of strategic initiatives, sent a text message on January 15 to several administration members instructing them to move their conversations about immigration to Signal, KCNC reported.
Posner wrote, “We are going to use Signal to communicate with Strike Force so that communication remains encrypted and secure (and messages auto delete.)” […]
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