Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney admitted Monday that he and his team had destroyed official government records for purely political reasons.
WCVB-TV reported Friday that as Romney’s term as governor Massachusetts was ending, all of his administration’s emails were wiped from the servers. At the same time, eleven of his top aides purchased their computer hard drives for $65 each, and the remaining computers in the governor’s office were wiped clean as well.
After dodging questions about the matter over the weekend, the candidate finally confessed in an interview with the Nashua Telegraph Monday.
“Well, I think in government we should follow the law,” Romney said. “And there has never been an administration that has provided to the opposition research team, or to the public, electronic communications. So ours would have been the first.”
Electronic document laws apparently don't apply to Republicans. Rick Perry in Texas and Nikki Haley in South Carolina have hit the delete button too as Governor (not to mention Dubya doing it in a higher office)...and of course when you keep the emails, people ask uncomfortable questions about them. After massive, long, drawn out fights over the emails, that is.
I'd ask what Romney is hiding, but the answer's simple: the fact that he used to have the opposite position of whatever he has now on a number of issues.
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