Huckabee Hearts Secrecy

The enduring mystery surrounding the former Arkansas governor's M.I.A. records.

— By Siddhartha Mahanta

Fri Apr. 1, 2011 11:35 AM PDT

There's a Mike Huckabee mystery that won't go away.

Send a public records request seeking documents from his 12-year stint as Arkansas governor, as Mother Jones did recently, and an eyebrow-raising reply will come back: The records are unavailable, and the computer hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed by the Huckabee administration as the governor prepared to leave office and launch a presidential bid.