Full Blown Scandal? NH AG-Ayotte (Running For Senate) Wrote Herself Permission Slip to Bury Email

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Ayotte Wrote Herself Permission Slip to Bury Email
by: Dean Barker
Mon May 10, 2010 at 20:44:21 PM EDT



But now I think we might just be on the verge of full-blown scandal that could spell serious damage to her senate bid.

This is a transcript from the dead-tree piece in Sunday's UL (and again, kudos to DiStaso and the UL for holding onto this story and not letting go):

In a report under her official letterhead issued on July 15, 2009, she interpreted a provision of the law to mean that if an electronic record is deleted but remains in the "delete" file or on a back up system, it would be considered "legally deleted" and would be "properly treated as no longer subject to disclosure" under the right to know law.

...Ayotte's predecessor, Peter Heed, had a simpler interpretation of the treatment of computer records.

In a March 2003 memo, he wrote "Public documents stored in computers shall be available in the same manner as records stored in public files if access to such records would not reveal work papers, personnel data or other confidential information."

Take another look at the date of that memo: July 15, 2009.

Kelly Ayotte filed to run for Judd Gregg's senate seat less than a week later.

more:
http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/9928/ayotte-wrote-herself-permission-slip-to-bury-email