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Fri 2 Nov 2007 16:00
by Kevin McGehee
71° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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You know, maybe we just plain don’t need anybody in the White House anytime soon, who has roots of whatever depth in Arkansas.
Some former staffers of then-Gov. Mike Huckabee and one current employee of the office that did some of the destruction are saying that the media shouldn’t assume that all computer data and other documents were destroyed in the aftermath of Huckabee’s order to literally wipe the slate clean after he left office.
Huckabee had ordered that the hard drives in 83 personal computers and four servers be destroyed. That equipment and data resided in the state Capitol, a state office in Washington, D.C., the Arkansas State Police airport hangar, the governor’s mansion, and the Arkansas State Police drug office. Additionally a number of paper documents were shredded and burned.
Huckabee’s office claimed the records were destroyed as a courtesy to the incoming governor. Critics believe that the records—particularly those from the governor’s mansion and the airport hangar—were destroyed to further conceal ethical breaches from an administration that many considered more ethically challenged than that of Bill Clinton.» Record Removal
I don’t see how any administration could be more ethically challenged than the Clintons’, but I readily admit that may simply be a failure of imagination on my part and I’m not particularly eager to see that envelope get pushed any further. It’s almost certainly unfair to Huckabee to write him out of the presidential race if he hasn’t done anything wrong here—but it’s hard to see this in a way that doesn’t put him in a bad light, and dammit we just don’t need this bull$#!t anymore.
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