Mitt Romney Staff Deleted Emails Before GOP Governor Left Office To Run For President

The Boston Globe:

Just before Mitt Romney left the Massachusetts governor's office and first ran for president, 11 of his top aides purchased their state-issued computer hard drives, and the Romney administration's e-mails were all wiped from a server, according to interviews and records obtained by the Globe.

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Comments

[VA Lady2008]

07:00 AM on 11/18/2011

I'm sure we're all shocked.

[PickedName]

06:30 AM on 11/18/2011

Something to hide, Romney?

Also, why the heck would they sell hard drives that were involved in running the state government? I can only assume that at least some of those had confidential information on them at some point, which means it probably shouldn't be turned loose to private citizens (which, once they stopped working there, they were private citizens again). Plus, wiping out the server as well?

Something shady going on here. I hope there's more articles on this in the future.

[Scent]

04:11 PM on 11/17/2011

What would they have said? - That corporate America paid him to sell us out to the biggest criminals in this nation?

He is GOP, so where's the surprise?

[Dunelm]

03:36 PM on 11/17/2011

Hmm . . . another Nixon in the making?

[rigmoten]

02:49 PM on 11/17/2011

Destroy all evidence.

[haval2]

02:24 PM on 11/17/2011

stinky, dirty Mitt ... nothing new. Is that OK to do if you are a Mormon?

[jmk6653]

02:20 PM on 11/17/2011

Why bother with reality tv when you can follow politics??

[Needawinner]

02:11 PM on 11/17/2011

The problem faced by all the republican contenders is that they all ly, so later, when they run for office again, the lys are exposed and their baggage is full. You can call it lys or flippflopps, all the same, romney need a truck to carry his baggage.

[WestSeattle8]

02:13 PM on 11/17/2011

This could very well end Romney, unless he wants to debate in an orange outfit. Anyone wanna bet the Presidents campaign starts coming out against Newt?

[WestSeattle8]

02:09 PM on 11/17/2011

Notice none of Romney's people take responsibility for their actions. Instead, they just blame it on Obama. Typical Republicans.

[WestSeattle8]

02:07 PM on 11/17/2011

Yesterday I was certain the nominee would be Romney. Now, I'm going to have to go with Newt. Everyone else is too wacko. Anyone want to bet the President's campaign team starts aiming for Newt?

[liberty apples]

02:00 PM on 11/17/2011

You can tell a lot about a candidate by the people he invites into his inner circle. Here's a prediction: one of Romney's top aides, Eric Fehrnstrom, might eventually prove a liability.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-24/bostonglobe/29923247_1_twitter-account-eric-fehrnstrom-mitt-romney

[WestSeattle8]

01:59 PM on 11/17/2011

Can he still be in the primary if he's wearing an orange jumper? He'd be out just in time for the general, seeing as how the consequence in a year in jail.

[idisVA]

01:52 PM on 11/17/2011

To obliterate the entire electronic record of a gubernatorial term is not only unconscionable but borders on illegality. Mitt Romney obviously has something of serious nature to hide. With time, it will be exposed.

[truegreen]

01:54 PM on 11/17/2011

Romney is a serial liar.

[WestSeattle8]

02:01 PM on 11/17/2011

It is totally illegal. If it had been a few emails, that would have been one thing. But all electronic records? Not to mention wiping the server clean, well, there's no question about the illegality. The next GOP debate he better be wearing an orange jumper.

[WestSeattle8]

01:49 PM on 11/17/2011

After the prosecutions, that doesn't leave the Republicans many options. Wow. I would have expected this from Bush, but Romney? He's not as smart as I thought he was.

[pmoschetta]

01:59 PM on 11/17/2011

Yet his staff blames it on Obama's campaign

These frauds will say anything to spin the truth

[WestSeattle8]

02:02 PM on 11/17/2011

I know, right? How dumb do they think we are?

[Paulie21]

01:43 PM on 11/17/2011

OMG! What are they hiding??? so now we will have to rely on all the video of him saying when gov of mass that he was for a woman's right to choose and we wont have the emails from him and his staff bashing the religious right and praising Joseph Smith!

[WestSeattle8]

02:11 PM on 11/17/2011

I thought the NSA could retrieve data even if the server was cleaned? Wonder if google has any snapshots?