Report: Romney-Era Emails Wiped From Mass. Records

[IDemo]

Source: The Boston Channel

POSTED: 2:52 pm EST November 18, 2011
UPDATED: 3:08 pm EST November 18, 2011

BOSTON -- Massachusetts state officials say just before the end of Mitt Romney's term as governor, 11 of his top aides purchased their state-owned computer hard drives, and the Romney administration's e-mails were all wiped from a server.

The chief legal counsel for Gov. Deval Patrick tells The Boston Globe that Romney administration officials had the remaining computers in the governor's office replaced just before the Democrat took over in 2007.

Romney tried to ignore questions about the report during a Manchester campaign stop on Friday, only saying that staffers followed the law.

When asked if he thought politics were involved in the information's release, he laughed, "Politics? In a presidential campaign?"



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[graywarrior]

1. When you think he can't be any more unlikeable

[stonecutter357]

2. get the money out of politics.

get the money out of politics.

[truthisfreedom]

3. That's key.

[Taverner]

4. Why do elected officials get away with this, but if you work at a Corp, you don't

I've been called by investigators and email auditors about emails I sent years ago

All for good reason

But since Shrub, this has been SOP for elected officials

[unblock]

6. the answer is found in the question: are you a rich republican?

iokiyar

[thucythucy]

16. I was asking myself the same question

as I was reading this. Is this really legal? Who for instance determines the price of a state-owned hard drive? If I work for the state, and like the state-owned car I've been using, do I get to "buy" it after I leave office?

And aren't there laws against deleting publicly owned e-mails?

Somebody has got to have the backups for this stuff. You wonder what was happening, for the Romney people to be so determined to cover their tracks.

[SoapBox]

5. Skeezy... Sleazy... Dirty... Slimey...

YUP!

It's the GOPBagger way!!

And yet, if you, as some LOWLY employee at some mega corporation, DARE to look at Amazon or Hotmail, from your desk computer...They would fire your ass!

Come on Occupy...Come on 99%...Let's take back America.

[fascisthunter]

7. which just shows how unethical and corrupt he was and still is...

dumbass republican voters...

[NashVegas]

8. No Back-Ups? Not Anywhere?

interesting

[SpiralHawk]

9. Republicon Occultism

as usual.

Hiding the truth from the citizens of These United States.

[MarkCharles]

10. In this case, Massachusetts voters who replaced Romney with

Obama friend, Deval Patrick, first black governor of Mass in history, two years before Obama won in 2008.... now Romney wants the run the Birth Certificate time machine on Obama once again, this time only two years... not 40+... claiming Obama had something to do with Deval Patrick making this fact an issue.. when it was a few months before Obama declared for presidency.

[russspeakeasy]

11. Nobody is really surprised are they ?

[alp227]

12. Bush also censored/dumped a lot of emails didn't he?

I surely do NOT want another Bush presidency.

[Tutankhamun]

13. If I were Romney, I wouldn't be so sure these emails are gone forever.

Cyberspace has a funny way of biiting people in the ass.

[zonkers]

14. I agree. Also, it can probably be determined who deleted them when.

[valerief]

15. And that would surprise, uh, gimme a second, it would surprise, now, it's gotta surprise someone, uh