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Politico: Ayotte's AG Computer Scrubbed

by: Jennifer Daler

Tue May 04, 2010 at 13:04:42 PM EDT


An article in Politico looking at the problems the investigation into the FRM Ponzi scheme may cause Ayotte's US Senate campaign includes this bombshell: It appears she had her calendar and e-mail correspondence scrubbed from the computer system  before leaving office as New Hampshire Attorney General. Why?

According to an open records request made by Democratic operative Geoffrey Andersen and obtained by POLITICO, Ayotte's calendar and e-mail correspondence were removed from the state attorney general's computer system when she stepped down last summer.

"You requested a copy of General Ayotte's official schedule from June 1, 2003 to the present. The calendar was removed from the computer system when she left office and thus is not available for public disclosure. Her email correspondence was similarly removed from the system as of her departure date," wrote Ann Rice, an associate attorney general in the Criminal Justice Bureau, in response to Andersen's request.

Asked if it was normal protocol to remove those records from the system once a public official left office, Rice said she could not say.

Update: NH Political Report has posted Rice's letter

Jennifer Daler :: Politico: Ayotte's AG Computer Scrubbed
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Transparency (4.00 / 3)
So much for transparency.

Of course, yesterday the NHGOP demanded that "all records relating to the collapse of these failed companies to be made available for public inspection"; well, I guess Ayotte made sure that can't happen.



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    


With Governor John Lynch's... (0.00 / 0)
...timely and clear order this afternoon (Tuesday) that all records MUST be made public, I tend to think that there will be a strong indication of anything that is missing, so the search will continue to go on.  Secretary of State Securities Director Mark Connolly is a profile in courage by insisting on sunlight, despite considerable resistance and roadblocks during the past few months.  It will be interesting.  

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