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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Monday defended his administration’s efforts to cover its electronic tracks with the purchase of hard drives from state computers, saying he had no intention of providing ''opposition research teams'' with electronic communications from his term as governor. Meeting with the editorial board of the Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph, Mr. Romney was questioned about a Boston Globe story (snip) Last week, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades accused Mr. Patrick of running a ''dirty tricks''shop for the president’s benefit and requested documents on any contact his administration has had with top Obama White House or campaign operatives.

Call girl free to reveal rich john’s name in months [Puzzle for FReepers] "The federal gag order barring a Yellow Pages prostitute from outing the name of a well-to-do Bay State client she bedded then blackmailed when he ended their pay-to-play affair will be lifted when her supervised probation expires in five months. Michelle Robinson, 32, who under threat of imprisonment by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf has never publicly named her deep-pockets trick ..." "The case was cloaked in so much secrecy and intrigue that in 2009 Wolf made federal prosecutors submit a list to him...