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Palaire Report Details NHLPA Spying
by Alanah McGinley on 05/29/07 at 12:08 PM ET
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Liz Mullen at Sports Business Journal has written an article today on more of the background to the Ted Saskin and NHLPA scandal. SBJ is normally for subscribers-only, but has graciously provided Kukla’s Korner with a free link to the complete article for the benefit of our readers. Our sincere thanks to them for doing this.
And this article is well worth reading. My own reaction was that some people might - and perhaps should - face serious legal consequences for some things that happened in this case.
The electronic spying program instituted at the NHL Players Association targeted 45 players, was referred to as Big Brother and extended to ex-union chief Ted Saskin examining how individual players voted in the secret ballot to ratify the NHL labor deal, according to sources familiar with a report on the matter.
Among other details from the report, according to sources: Saskin systematically read the personal e-mails of players and union staff members for more than a year, but stopped briefly because he was concerned about legal implications in the wake of the Hewlett-Packard corporate surveillance scandal. Saskin resumed reading the messages when he learned of an effort by NHL players to authorize an investigation into his hiring and other activities.
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I’m not surprised. Once Saskin and Linden realized that they were only accountable to themselves while left alone to negotiate with Daly, Saskin very deliberately staged a coup, and when you come to power by betraying the union, one would think that you’d logically be paranoid about dissent. In the end, he violated attorney-client privilege, he basically hacked into his employers’ emails, and he left a Nixonian trail of evidence.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 05/30/07 at 04:28 AM ET