In the report, Patrick's chief legal counsel, Mark Reilly, said there was no electronic record of any Romney administration emails. A Romney campaign spokeswoman last night acknowledged that the hard drives were purchased but said that the former aides did nothing wrong. She also accused Patrick of "doing the Obama campaign's dirty work."

Well. Nothing that we can prove, anyway.

GOP: "Do as I say, not as I do."

Fun fact: Hard drives don't actually get "erased", they just get written over.

Hey! Those hard drives just fell on a huge magnet. And stuff.

vernonFL: Fun fact: Hard drives don't actually get "erased", they just get written over.

Degausser.

RexTalionis: vernonFL: Fun fact: Hard drives don't actually get "erased", they just get written over.

Degausser.

I love that show! The kids are so sweet.

vernonFL: Fun fact: Hard drives don't actually get "erased", they just get written over.

While this is technically true, low level format will clean the platters fairly well.

_{\this is done at the vendor}

RexTalionis: Degausser.

Yeah you're right.

vernonFL: Fun fact: Hard drives don't actually get "erased", they just get written over.

I don't know, when you take the cases apart, take the platters out and wipe them off, as well as run the internal magnets over them, they are pretty well wiped

/as well as not usable

Seriously, this Obama guy.... WTF is his problem?

Peter von Nostrand: Seriously, this Obama guy.... WTF is his problem?

With his time machine we'd never know, now would we?

2wolves: Peter von Nostrand: Seriously, this Obama guy.... WTF is his problem?

With his time machine we'd never know, now would we?

But is it a hot tub time machine?

From what I glean from this article, the situation looks something like this:

Partick: Romney and co. deleted all of the correspondences from their time in office, I'm not saying it was aliens shady, but...

Romney: Nuh uh, we're not shady, you're the one who's shady, you Obama loving... Obama lover! In fact, you're so shady we want you to give us every the record of every single time you looked at, talked to, or even thought about Obama over the past five years!

Patrick: Okay, would you like that for here or to go?

/Is that about right?

Peter von Nostrand: 2wolves: Peter von Nostrand: Seriously, this Obama guy.... WTF is his problem?

With his time machine we'd never know, now would we?

But is it a hot tub time machine?

We'd have to ask the Australian PM.

RexTalionis: vernonFL: Fun fact: Hard drives don't actually get "erased", they just get written over.

Degausser.

The question is, did these people do anything that intelligent when they removed their records from the drives?

[checks article]

Probably not. Someone call a forensic computer specialist with a current copy of EnCase.

HellRaisingHoosier: *whistle*

They took their government hard drives?

How is that not highly illegal?

I suppose they could have the drives declared as surplus government assets, and made available for private purchase. Pretty sure you can't just buy them outright.

AlHarris31: Obama: shadiest DemocRAT president since Nixon.



We have pretty high expectations for our trolls. You're really bringing down the art form, Sparky.

It's always someone else's fault with these clowns... And they're always the victim.

GOP: The party of rugged individuals and personal responsibility.

hasty ambush: You know who else liked to keep their actions as governor secret?

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Dean records sealed (new window)

Wow... That's so relevant and timely.