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Kitzhaber email leaker lied to police
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A state employee who
leaked former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s
emails to the Willamette Week news-
paper lied to State Police who investi-
gated the incident this spring.
When Oregon State Police asked
Michael Rodgers how the newspaper
obtained the emails, Rodgers said he
suspected the leaker was someone in the
Kitzhaber administration, according to
a state police report released on Friday.
Rodgers, the interim director of the
state data center where Kitzhaber’s
emails are stored, admitted in a May 26
Willamette Week article that he leaked
Kitzhaber’s emails, and also said he
was the source who alerted the news-
paper when a staffer in the Kitzhaber
administration asked state information
technology employees who worked
with Rodgers to delete the emails.
Rodgers released roughly 6,000 emails
to the newspaper.
Among the 1,500 pages of investi-
gatory records the state police released
Friday was an email from Rodgers’
attorney to police, in which the lawyer
explained that Rodgers “at all times
acted in good faith” and was concerned
he would have obstructed justice if he
complied with the request to delete
Kitzhaber’s emails.
District attorneys in Marion and
Yamhill counties announced in early
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charges against Rodgers.
Kitzhaber used a Gmail account
for state business and the state set
up a system to archive those emails
on government computer servers.
However, state employees realized
earlier this year they had also been
archiving emails from a separate
account which Kitzhaber considered
personal. Employees discovered the
situation after The Oregonian and
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public records requests on Feb. 2 for
emails from Kitzhaber’s accounts.
At the time, Kitzhaber and his
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ence peddling scandal and state ethics
investigation into Hayes’ consulting
contracts. Hayes was hired by organi-
zations with interests in state policy, to
work on the same environmental and
economic topics on which she advised
the governor.
On Feb. 5, a staffer in Kitzhaber’s
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desk and asked employees to delete
emails from the governor’s private
email account that had been saved in
the data center archive. Managers at
the center emailed about the situation
throughout the evening, and ultimately
decided not to delete the emails.
Rodgers told detectives he learned of
the situation the next morning.
The Willamette Week newspaper
“I have no comment on any of that
because I know they’re trying to pin that
on me but it’s not true.”
— Now admitted leaker Micheal Rogers
On a phone call with a coworker that was recorded by Oregon State Police
reported Feb. 12 on the Kitzhaber
administration’s request that state
data center employees delete archived
emails from the governor’s private
account, and the newspaper followed
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stories based on those emails. It was
the same day Kitzhaber resigned as
governor.
The U.S. Justice Department served
the Department of Administrative
Services on Feb. 13 with a broad
subpoena for records related to Hayes
and Kitzhaber.
Michael Jordan, the state’s chief
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Department of Administrative Services
where the state data center is housed,
asked the Oregon State Police to inves-
tigate the leak on Feb. 18. Jordan has
since resigned.
Rodgers and another manager at
the data center, Technical Engineering
Manager Marshall Wells, were soon
placed on administrative leave pending
a human resources investigation
and were still on leave as of Friday
afternoon according to Matt Shelby, a
spokesman for the Oregon Department
of Administrative Services.
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on Feb. 19. They walked through the
events leading up to, and immediately
after, the emails were leaked to Willa-
mette Week.
“Towards the end of the interview,
Captain Worthy asked Mike Rodgers
how the Willamette Week got the
Governors’ private emails,” the police
wrote in a report. “Mike Rodgers
responded he did not think it was
his staff, he thought someone at the
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Rodgers went on to say that he did not
think the state email archive server had
been hacked.”
By the time state police started to
investigate, Kitzhaber’s emails had
been distributed to multiple employees
at the Oregon Department of Admin-
istrative Services and the Governor’s
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planned to determine which emails
were personal in nature and should be
deleted from state computer servers.
Detectives scoured Willamette Week
articles for references to Kitzhaber’s
leaked emails, and made a list of those
emails. They cross-referenced the list
with batches of Kitzhaber’s emails
provided to various state employees,
and soon narrowed the list of suspects
to four state employees.
One of those employees was
Rodgers, and state police obtained
a log of activity on Rodgers’ work
laptop. It revealed that someone had
inserted two new thumb drives into
the computer soon after Rodgers
received two thumb drives onto which
another state technology employee had
uploaded Kitzhaber’s emails.
“Based on this ... and the totality of
the other information that we learned
from our other investigative efforts
to this point, I suspected that Mike
Rodgers was the individual who
provided copies of John Kitzhaber’s
personal emails to the Willamette
Week,” Lt. Jonathan Harrington wrote
in a report.
Next, the police would try to get
Rodgers to confess that he leaked the
emails. State police contacted Julie
Bozzie, who was a top IT administrator
at the Department of Administrative
Services until December 2014 and
currently works for the Oregon Health
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notice with the state in April, alleging
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she blew the whistle on contracting and
IT problems related to Cover Oregon.
Bozzie had previously leaked docu-
ments to The Oregonian, but she told
state police she was not involved in the
leak of Kitzhaber’s emails. According
to a police report, Bozzie speculated
that Rodgers might have leaked
Kitzhaber’s emails. State police asked
Bozzie to call Rodgers and attempt
to get him to admit that he released
the emails. Bozzie agreed, and police
recorded the March 19 call.
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and he said ‘I, I, I have no comment
on any of that because I know they’re
trying to pin that on me but it’s not
true,’” state police wrote in the report.
Later in the conversation, Bozzie
and Rodgers discussed what type of
criminal charges Rodgers might face if
“‘the State Police were able to pin this
on him.’ Julie said that it seemed like it
would be light.”
According to the police report,
Rodgers responded, “‘well right now I
feel like .... I’m unemployable.’”
On April 7, Rodgers’ lawyer
emailed an offer to state police working
on the investigation: Rodgers would sit
down and “fully debrief” the situation,
in exchange for a promise of immunity
from prosecution. He wrote Rodgers’
superiors instructed him to delete
Kitzhaber’s’ emails and “he believed to
do so would make him guilty of crimes
including obstruction of justice.”
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