Perry stays secret on many things, including forensics files (Dallas Morning News)

12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News
choppe@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – ... Perry has fought to keep his itinerary of upcoming meetings and appearances from public review. No e-mail he has written has been made public because he only uses a personal e-mail account, which he says is not used for state business. His executive staff keeps a schedule that destroys most of the e-mails it generates every seven days.

In the latest example, Perry has denied access to files he reviewed in July 2004 that convinced him that Willingham was justly convicted.

Recent governors have served four or five years, and the memos of their general counsel became public through archives. Perry has served for 10 years and is keeping his lawyer's memos over that decade closed ...

... when it comes to his prospective travel, meetings and even whether he is out of state, he has won attorney general backing that allows him to withhold his schedule ...

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