Got this from ATS...
Clint has prepared a statement and has asked me to post EXACTLY this on
his behalf:
After reading the forums for the last several years, and being in the
business for more than fifteen, I thought I had seen it all. However,
the level of hate in this last series of forum posts is unbelievable.
At SEMA this year, my attorney Stewart Cables and I attended numerous
seminars regarding the new CARB and EPA regulations for our industry. At
SEMA, ATS (among others) spoke with the EPA about potential ways to
relax the stringent guidelines the EPA enforces on the diesel community,
and how we could lessen its impact through legislation. In the meantime,
Stewart drafted a letter (the one you see on the forums) and sent it to
me on my email. When he sent me the draft, I was totally surprised. I
told him he was absolutely not allowed to send it to the EPA or anyone
else for that matter. I did not think he would identify specific people
or companies, and ATS has never been the type of company to participate
in negative tactics like this. He agreed. The letter posted on the
forums right now is the only draft in existence.
When I told him no, as his client, that was the end of that. But now,
thanks to whoever posted this information, this information is
completely public and everyone in the whole diesel community knows about
it. Now, the EPA knows information I would never, ever allow to be
posted on the internet. Thanks to this letter, to that secret person,
the EPA has a very good idea of EVERYONE who has purchased a DPF delete
kit, and they can see how many of these delete kits are out there on the
road.
Before this hit the forums, Jared sent me a text saying "Thanks for the
letter to the EPA." I had no idea what he was talking about since
Stewart's letter was never released. At first, I thought he was joking.
I asked, pleaded with him to forward me the email or send me the source
so I could figure out what he was talking about. He refused. Why? Why
would he refuse to let me know where he got the email, if I truly sent
the letter? I know that a lot of you will call Jared to see if this is
true, which is great. It seems that everyone knew about this letter
before myself and ATS.
On this letter, that supposedly went to the EPA, where is my signature?
Where is Stewart's signature? Where is the ATS letterhead we use for
every letter that goes out the door? Where is the envelope? How could
someone say ATS sent a letter to the EPA without intercepting it in the
mail?
The only two people in the world to have ever seen this letter, before
December, were myself and my attorney. Yet here it is, all over the
internet for
everyone to see and
rip on ATS as rats and liars. That's
bs. ATS is aggressively pursuing the individuals involved with illegally
accessing my private and confidential emails.
My name has been drug through the mud and I will not tolerate the public
posting of my private attorney emails. ATS will find out who accessed
its private files and we will pursue every legal option available when
we do.
I have received evidence that an unauthorized source has accessed my
personal e-mail. This is unfortunately not the first time that strictly
confidential internal information from my e-mail was accessed and used
in a negative way towards ATS, but for the first time I now have proof
as to who gained access to the server. I am very upset about this and
concerned for all in the industry including ATS, as we all are in this
niche industry together.
Please see ATS' formal stance here:
http://www.atsdiesel.com/ats_new/resp/response.asp
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 3:38 PM
To: Kelli Weaver
Subject: Web Site Email
Was the letter to the EPA real????