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Which blog scooped the Houston Chronicle on Harris County Sheriff firings?

I can understand Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wanting to bring in his own command staff, but he's coming under fire after the man he put in charge of Internal Affairs was fired for sexual harassment, his personnel director was let go for incompetence, and the major who hired the personnel director (allegedly the major's close friend) resigned after he was found by Internal Affairs to have engaged in "behavior contrary to good order." All these folks were let go last spring, the Houston Chronicle reported today.Interestingly, the personnel director, Mark Canfield, "was fired 10 days after deputies questioned his credentials in anonymous postings on an Internet site." Which site? Other than telling us it was a "deputy's blog," the Houston Chronicle didn't consider that detail fit to print...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 21, 2010 (boomark / email).