"Wow"

[babylonsister]

Posted with permission.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/hes_running_for_office_for_pet033636.php

November 21, 2011 2:45 PM
He’s running for office, for Pete’s sake

By Steve Benen


Shortly before Mitt Romney departed the governor’s office, 11 of his top aides purchased 17 state-issued hard drives, purging the Romney administration’s email records in advance of his presidential campaign. The move has no precedent among modern Massachusetts governors, including Romney’s recent Republican predecessors.

Late last week, Romney refused to explain the missing hard drives, and when asked why they were purchased, the Republican would only say his aides “all followed the law exactly as it’s written.” That, of course, wasn’t the question.

Today, as Alex Seitz-Wald noted, Romney offered a rather amazing explanation during an interview with the Nashua Telegraph in New Hampshire.

“Well, I think in government we should follow the law. 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.”

Wait, what?

Let me get this straight. Romney is admitting, on the record and on video, that his team purchased government hard drives and deleted untold thousands of emails in order to keep official correspondence hidden? He was worried about opposition researchers? That’s Romney’s defense?

I can only imagine how devastating those emails must have been.

This is, by the way, the same Republican campaign that issued a memo last week attacking the Obama White House for having “turned its back on his campaign promises of openness and transparency.”

That was last week. This week, Romney is comfortable admitting that he and his team bought 17 hard drives so he could keep officials’ email correspondence hidden from the public because it might have proved politically embarrassing.

Wow.

[Tesha]

1. IOKIYAR. (NT)

[Hutzpa]

3. This line imo is condescending IOKIYAR

If democrats are using it to justify the actions of republicans by not attacking
republican actions then we are worse than they are because we're condoning their
actions by unconsciously putting them on a pedestal.

[Tesha]

4. Oh, I don't for a moment support the concept, but it *IS* reality in America today.

If it *WERE NOT* the reality, there'd be far more
Republicans in prison.

If it *WERE NOT* the reality, our President would
have done something about the multitude of crimes
committed by the prior administration.

Tesha

[Canuckistanian]

6. IOKIYA1% nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

2. Oh, Mittens.

:(

[treestar]

5. Republicans think they are so clever

If we can't see the emails from when he was governor, then he's going to let us in on all the WH correspondence? Yeah, right.