In an effort to lend some perspective to Bruce McCain's recent statements to the media, I think a bit of recent history might be helpful:
McCain Drops Out Of Multnomah County Sheriff’s Race
OPB | January 6, 2010 | Portland, OR
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McCain is a retired Captain from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office. He lost the endorsement of the Multnomah County Corrections Deputies Association. It voted to support McCain’s opponent, Dan Staton.
More @ link.
http://news.opb.org/article/6493-mccain-drops-out-multnomah-county-sheriffs-race/
I commented in a post weeks (if not months) ago that I suspected McCain's statements about this case to the media could perhaps be politically motivated.
Given the fact that Staton is McCain's recent former political rival, and given the fact that McCain allegedly withdrew from the race for Multnomah County Sheriff due to losing the endorsement of the Multnomah County Corrections Deputies Association, it's not surprising that he (McCain) appears to be keeping a close eye on the MCSO, and on his former political rival's decisions & statements to the press.
McCain seems to be ill-informed about certain aspects of the case (i.e. he says the MCSO should have requested the assistance of the PPB, when in fact, the PPB were, according to Sheriff Staton, one of the agencies involved in some capacity early on in the case, and AFAIK still are).
However, regardless of McCain's opinion or possible political motivations, it is disconcerting, IMO, that bi-monthly briefings of the Kyron Horman Task Force are given to Lt. Walls,
head of the MCSO Cold Case Team, especially in light of this:
The definition of a cold case varies from agency to agency. The National Institute of Justice currently defines a cold case as any case whose probative investigative leads have been exhausted. In essence, this means a case that is only a few months old may be defined as being "cold."
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/260/what-is-cold-case.htm (TY BeanE for this link)
It is also disconcerting to read this:
They're still unsure what happened to the child, and have had to consider all options, including his being abducted, becoming a victim of human trafficking or being killed.
They point to one undeniable fact: They lack any physical evidence of Kyron, or physical evidence that links anyone to his disappearance.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/12/multnomah_county_sheriff_dan_s_2.html
On the six-month anniversary of Kyron’s disappearance Staton finally confessed to the Oregonian’s Maxine Bernstein what many in the public and media already suspected:
"I wanted to know what's going on because I lost confidence in the investigation," he said. "I felt the case was moving towards a cold case, and I was concerned. We had collected a ton of information, and nothing was being answered."
http://victoriataftkpam.blogspot.com/2010/12/mccain-kyron-kops-confident-yet.html
"We had collected a ton of information, and nothing was being answered."
ETA: IMO, if a "ton of information" has been collected (according to Sheriff Staton), then some things should have been answered by now. If the "ton of information" is relevant, is solid (i.e. can only be interpreted one way, rather than interpreted a myriad of ways)), & can withstand the basic threshold of probable cause for a Grand Jury True Bill, than IMO, an indictment should have been delivered by now.
Yet, Sheriff Staton stated recently that "
nothing was being answered" by this "
ton of information".
Question: Is it possible that this so-called "ton of information" isn't "answering" anything because it has little or nothing to reveal in terms of solving the disappearance of Kyron?
