The clock is running out on Governor Bob Ferguson’s six-month “pause” of Washington’s Microsoft Teams chat auto-deletion policy, and with it, the last thin excuse for secrecy.

Will he restore transparency or quietly restart the digital shredder?

In this episode, Jamie Nixon takes you inside the backstory Ferguson hopes you’ve forgotten: the years he spent defending this legally risky policy as Attorney General, the behind-closed-doors review with zero public input, and the ongoing culture of evasion across state agencies.

With real public records as source material, blunt commentary, and righteous indignation... we cut through the spin and lay out the stakes for Washington’s right to know. Because one person’s “transitory record” might be another person’s only chance at the truth.

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