Archibald Knox
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These days management tap out quick emails to each other instead of talking face to face or using the phone as they would have done in the past. Which was usually unrecorded and so could not be used as strong undeniable evidence. It required witnesses’ memories.Alan Cook (MD 2006-10) now being questioned at the enquiry. He wrote in an e-mail (during his tenure) that the 'subbies' [sic] must be struggling so they've turned to defrauding the Post Office. Nice guy. Oh, he now regrets writing that.
And that’s the true beauty of email. Recorded in perpetuity for posterity. Every little detail forms the chain of who knew, said and did, what and when. For years afterwards. Glorious.
As long as the crooks don’t delete it all, but then again, that’s also an offence and a big gap in the record tells its own story. But there may be multiple back-ups. Given the whistle blowers, there’s also the good chance that some lower down will have archived their own email records for self-protection knowing the executive tendency for throwing underlings in front of the oncoming bus. So it makes lying in court, or to a public inquiry, very much more hazardous.
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