And Huckabee goes for the deflection;

At issue are gubernatorial hard drives that were wiped clean. The magazine suggests a sinister motive. But Huckabee says everything was done on the up-and-up. “Those hard drives were removed and replaced at a cost of just over $13,000 which our office paid for out of our transition budget so there would be no cost incurred by the incoming administration. Reports that the state spent over $350,000 on new computers were solely because the new governor wanted all new equipment, even though the existing hardware was operable and modern. That decision had nothing to do with my administration and amazingly was never questioned or investigated by the ‘in the tank’ Capitol press corps,” he says.

“Sure, I erased every possible piece of evidence and record that they contained, but hey, I bought new clean ones, so we’re good, right?”