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| Mitt Romney at a news conference about the 2002 Winter Olympics |
More
than a decade has passed since Mitt Romney presided over the Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City, but the archival records from those games
that were donated to the University of Utah to provide an unprecedented
level of transparency about the historic event, remain off limits to the
public. And some of the documents that may have shed the most
light on Romney's stewardship of the Games were likely destroyed by Salt
Lake Olympic officials.
The archivists involved in preparing
the documents for public review told ABC News that financial documents,
contracts, appointment calendars, emails and correspondence are likely
not included in the 1,100 boxes of Olympic records, and will not be part
of the collection that will ultimately be made public.
The Salt
Lake City Winter Olympics represent a crucial chapter in the Romney
biography -- his selection to oversee the Games came in the wake of a
bribery scandal.
Romney ... frequently cites the experience as
part of what qualifies him to assume the presidency. But the absence of
publicly available records that detail the decisions he made while
running the games has increasingly become an uneasy subject for the
library, which has for months been receiving inquiries from journalists
and other researchers trying to subject Romney's version of the events
to an analysis based on documents from the events.
Romney [has] already
faced criticism for his decisions to keep secret some of his past tax
records and some details about his investment holdings.
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