Mitt Romney Hiding Information Which Could Cost Him The 2012 Election?

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, before preparing his first presidential bid in 2007, paid $100,000 of taxpayer money to order hard drives from his time as governor to be erased and destroyed.

According to reports, Romney's staff had purchased the hard drives for their state-issued computers and then were ordered to wipe out all of their emails from state servers before having to sign a lease for new computers for the governor's office, breaking a former lease and costing the state $97,000.

Romney's former representatives say that the practice followed all proper uses of law and precedent. However, the former director of administration for the governor's office has stated that the efforts to wipe out all forms of records was unprecedented in her twenty-three years of serving successive Governors.

Massachusetts state laws have yet to be updated to include digital records requests which has caused a mass of paper records requests from Romney's time as governor. This includes documents in which he failed to have destroyed before leaving office. Meanwhile, Romney has argued that a 1997 state court ruling states that governor records in the state are not subject to disclosure, which has been contended by various public records rights activists.

Does it seem excuseable that records of public matter should be allowed to be erased or destroyed as a governor leaves office? Shouldn't those documents be made available as a record of public interest barring classified documents?

As governor, Mitt Romney worked with a democrat-led state house to correct budget shortfalls and signed into law a healthcare bill that required state residents to buy insurance or face penalties. A bill that helped the Obama administration model the Health Care Reform Act. it's quite likely that as Romney now criticizes the Obama plan, that he wanted those records destroyed in order to protect his new attack platform against the current president.

It is quite possible that Mitt Romney is attempting to hide information that would halt his chances of becoming the next president of the United States.