Is Governor Jay Nixon Lying or Ignorant?

On Wednesday, Emily Wood, an afternoon anchor on Springfield KY3, asked Nixon directly about the transfer of CCW information to federal agencies.  Here's Nixon's rather dismissive response, in part:

“First of all, the Department of Revenue has been very clear,” Nixon said.  "There are no documents being sent to some federal government magic database somewhere to do something.”

 Then, of course, Revenue along with the Highway Patrol admitted that they did share information with the feds.  Major  (Oops) Colonel Replogle of the MSHP claims the information was sent without his knowledge or approval, and that he would not have approved of it had he known, acknowledging that the sharing the data was inappropriate.  (I would say, "illegal".)

I find it hard to believe that Replogle didn't know what was going on.  But the person who looks really stupid is Nixon.  Of course, he is going to claim that he repeated what he was told.  However, the video of his response leaves me feeling somewhat uneasy.  This is one of several times the question has come up, and Nixon's response has been the same.  If he actually didn't know, his first response should have been to admit that while saying that he would find out.  That's not what he says here.

“This is a distraction from the issues that we have in front of us, and while I am certainly cognizant of legislators’ and folks’ ability to ask questions, there is no secret database, there is no desire to keep information," Nixon continued on Wednesday. 

Shades of "What difference does it make?"  Nixon is channeling his buddy Hillary in that video with a blatant move to belittle and dismiss questioners while changing the subject.  In fact, it strikes me as being very much like a cover-up.  I'll give Colonel Replogle and Governor Nixon the benefit of the doubt in accepting that they did not give direct prior approval to the transfer.   It's just asking too much, however, to think they didn't approve of the concept.  I also think it's clear, especially in Nixon's case, based on the way he insists on answering the question, that they knew about and have known about the transfer of information for quite some time.  The problem lies in trying to obfuscate the truth for political reasons.

You'd think a guy named Nixon would know better than that.

Anyway, I doubt that the legislators will move to impeach the governor, and our turncoat Democrat AG Koster will not be charging anybody with any crimes.  The main thing to take away from this is that we cannot trust politicians or government agencies to be honest with us.