'Americans deserve to know whether the Romney admin. sought to delete (his) public records'

[bigtree]

Nov 17, 2011

___ The Democratic National Committee has filed a freedom of information (FOIA) request with the office of the governor of Massachusetts in an effort to uncover whether staff destroyed information before Mitt Romney left office.

The request, obtained by The Hill, is for copies of any email communication between then governor-Romney’s staffers relating to their purchase of work computers, or for "permission to destroy, take personal possession of, or remove from official premises, records, including a description of such records."

The DNC is also requesting any and all email correspondence from Romney or his staffers containing a wide variety of terms, such as “delete emails,” “destroy records,” “flip-flop,” “more conservative,” “climate change,” and “Planned Parenthood,” among others.

read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/194467-dnc-requests-romney-emails-with-terms-destroy-records-and-flip-flop


An article in the Boston Globe earlier today launched the back-and-forth requests, unveiling an investigation into Romney aides who the paper claimed tried to digitally cleanse Romney’s office in 2006 when he was still governor of Massachusetts. The piece led Romney’s presidential campaign to accuse his gubernatorial successor – Obama ally Patrick – of being “an opposition research arm of the Obama re-election campaign.”

Now, the DNC is asking the state of Massachusetts for any electronic correspondence dated between Jan. 3, 2003 and Jan. 4, 2007 between any of the 11 aides described in the Boston Globe investigation as having purchased hard drives and working to wipe a digital data server prior to leaving office.

Eleven of Romney’s top aides purchased 17 state-issued hard drives for $65 each, some doing so just weeks before Gov. Patrick – a Democrat and strong supporter of President Obama – took office, effectively obliterating the electronic record of the Romney administration, the Globe reported.

read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/democrats-request-records-from-romneys-governorship/

[msongs]

1. why are these hard drives sold. are they not public records? nt

[bigtree]

2. '

[Politicalboi]

3. Just had to open your mouths

Now that they have accused Gov Patrick, he needs to clear his name, so we need to get to the bottom of this. More popcorn :popcorn:

The piece led Romney’s presidential campaign to accuse his gubernatorial successor – Obama ally Patrick – of being “an opposition research arm of the Obama re-election campaign.”