"6 Things Mitt Romney Is Hiding" at Mother Jones

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6 Things Mitt Romney Is Hiding

By Adam Serwer, Andy Kroll, and Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/what-is-mitt-romney-hiding

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Presidential candidates try as best they can to control their public image. But by modern standards, Mitt Romney has taken his quest for secrecy to extraordinary lengths. Here's all there is to know about what we don't know about Romney.

His Old Emails

Reporters looking for emails and other records from Romney's tenure as Massachusetts governor are out of luck.

In the final months of Romney's four-year stint as governor, as the Boston Globe reported, 11 of his top staffers purchased the hard drives in their government-issued computers, preventing state archivists from accessing any of their emails. In its final days, the Romney administration also replaced computers and scrubbed state government servers of all the administration's emails. As the top attorney for Romney's replacement, Deval Patrick, put it: "The governor's office has found no e-mails from 2002-2006 in our possession."

The Romney administration did turn over to state archivists hundreds of boxes of records, including memos, emails, and other communications among state agencies and cabinet members. However, the boxes containing those records were hand-picked and given over voluntarily by Romney's staff. It stands to reason that any embarrassing or revealing information—say, internal planning or deliberations about Romney's universal health care legislation—did not make it into the Romney administration's record dump.

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1. Down the memory hole...

K & R

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2. The governor's chair was just a whistle stop

My source (sibling of a staffer) tells me that they were setting up for the Presidential effort in early '05.