Romney Admin. Destroyed Emails to Thwart “Opposition Research”

They were government computers and anything on them is government property!

For example, Secretary of State William F. Galvin's office ordered the city of Boston to secure City Hall computers and hire an independent computer forensics expert to retrieve emails that were improperly deleted by the mayor’s top policy aide. According to the Boston Globe, the aide, Michael J. Kineavy, reportedly violated the state public records law by deleting email so copies wouldn’t be preserved by the city servers. The public records law requires municipal employees to save electronic correspondence for at least two years. Penalties include fines of up to $500 or prison sentences of up to one year, the report said. et many business operators are unaware that they need to comply with a number of state and federal regulations when it comes to archiving those messages. For example, the Federal Regulations on Civil Procedures, or FRCP, which took effect in December 2006, require businesses involved in federal court cases to identify, preserve and collect electronically stored information. More stringent controls and stronger penalties are forcing organizations to take a harder look at regulatory compliance issues. For instance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or so-called “SOX” impacts industries and imposes strict penalties on firms that delete or alter documents with the defrauding of third parties.

Encrypted and encryption is not password dependent, it is key code dependent and the key code again is the property of the government, not some sheister politician.

I know a thing or two about encryption. U.S. Army 31S. Tactical Crypto Repair.

I find it impossible to believe that any state agency does not have all PCs networked, and backed up weekly (daily?)
That would be a remote server which would require illegal action to modify or erase.
Entire data sets for a myriad state agencies could be wiped out otherwise.

The data is all somewhere, except perhaps for the last day.

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