Huckabee destroyed government hard drives before leaving office (How Watergate-y of him)

[kpete]

Huckabee destroyed government hard drives before leaving office
by John Aravosis (DC) on 4/04/2011 04:38:00 PM

How Watergate-y of him. Then again, it's not like he set some rapist free who then went on to rape and murder two more women.
http://www.americablog.com/2011/04/huckabee-destroyed-government-hard.html



In February, Mother Jones wrote to the office of Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe seeking access to a variety of records concerning his predecessor's tenure, including Huckabee's travel records, calendars, call logs, and emails. Beebe's chief legal counsel, Tim Gauger, replied in a letter that "former Governor Huckabee did not leave behind any hard-copies of the types of documents you seek. Moreover, at that time, all of the computers used by former Governor Huckabee and his staff had already been removed from the office and, as we understand it, the hard-drives in those computers had already been 'cleaned' and physically destroyed."

He added, "In short, our office does not possess, does not have access to, and is not the custodian of any of the records you seek."
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A former high-ranking Arkansas Republican who was once close to Huckabee and who requested anonymity told Mother Jones that the destruction of the hard drives puzzled him. "I don’t know what that was about, if they had things to hide or not," he says. But, he adds, the episode fits with Huckabee's general reticence when it comes to public disclosure. "Huckabee just absolutely doesn’t trust anybody. In my experience, if you don't trust people, it's because you're not trustworthy. We see the world through our own eyes."

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/huckabee-arkansas-destroyed-records

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Isn't that, like, illegal and shit?

[Angry Dragon]

2. Destruction of government property

off to gitmo for him and his former staff until we get the answers we want
he could be a terrorist trying to take over the government

[lpbk2713]

3. Only if you're a Democrat.

Rethuglicans get a free pass as always.

(It says so in the fine print somewhere. :eyes: )