GOP presidential hopeful (and religious fanatic) Mike Huckabee, the current frontrunner by many estimates, has a little problem with being transparent about his political activities.

The problem is that he ordered all records from his 12-year governorship of Arkansas physically destroyed.

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.

In 2007, during Huckabee’s campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, the issue of the eradicated hard drives surfaced briefly, but it was never fully examined, and key questions remain. Why had Huckabee gone to such great lengths to wipe out his own records? What ever happened to a backup collection that was provided to a Huckabee aide?

And that isn’t all. Huckabee has also destroyed the records from his 12 years as a Southern Baptist minister, and blocked access to videotapes of his sermons.