WASHINGTON – In the final weeks of Mitt Romney’s term as Massachusetts governor, a small team of aides combed through statehouse filing cabinets. They filled more than 630 cartons with papers destined for the state archives as the primary documentary legacy of his administration. One floor, though, was almost completely off limits to them: Romney’s inner sanctum, his third-floor office.
The former legislative affairs director who headed the archiving effort, John O’Keefe, recalls that his team was given a stack of Romney’s public schedules over four years and a limited variety of other documents from the governor’s executive office, but not much else. “We were told we were not in charge of archiving the third floor,” he says.
The mystery deepened recently when the chief legal counsel for Romney’s Democratic successor, Gov. Deval Patrick, said that just before Patrick took office, material on a state government web server that housed Romney’s emails
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