Did hackers steal Romney's tax returns? Secret Service investigating...

[Indi Guy]

If this story is true it could be a bombshell for the campaign. The key graph in the pastebin posting from the hackers:

"Romney's 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team moved down the stairs to the 2nd floor and setup shop in an empty office room. During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied. A package was sent to the PWC on suite 260 with a flash drive containing a copy of the 1040 files, plus copies were sent to the Democratic office in the county and copies were sent to the GOP office in the county at the beginning of the week also containing flash drives with copies of Romney's tax returns before 2010. A scanned signature image for Mitt Romney from the 1040 forms were scanned and included with the packages, taken from earlier 1040 tax forms gathered and stored on the flash drives."

A little while later the same party sent a ransom demand for $1 million in bitcoins, a purportedly untraceable digital currency.

Before people get too excited about this they should remember an earlier episode in which tapes of Bush preparing for his debate with Al Gore were stolen. The GOP managed to turn a negative story for them into a scandal for the Democrats. [font color="darkred"]This could be a dirty trick intended to neutralize the Romney Tax Returns issue by linking the Democrats to the extortion demand.[/font]

http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/final-did-hackers-steal-romneys-tax.html

[MADem]

1. The Democrats do not want RMoney's tax returns to be STOLEN. They want RMoney to do like his DADDY

and release the things.

Mittsy is no George Romney--that's the bottom line, here.

Fucking bitcoins as a ransom? This sounds more like a "viral--cool--teen--nouveau" ad for BITCOINS than it does an actual theft.

[MjolnirTime]

2. The Secret Service has the packages that were sent to the Party offices

They can easily confirm whether or not the Romney 1040 signature images are real.

This being the case, shouldn't they have already debunked this story by now?!?

Since they haven't, I wonder...
Maybe the hackers do indeed have something.

[Mr.Bill]

3. Even if the documents turned up

The republicans would declare them to be forgeries. They're good at doing that when confronted with actual documents.

[Indi Guy]

6. No doubt.

That's how they trapped Dan Rather. He saw the real doc's at first & then didn't recognize the forgeries because they contained the exact same info.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Alleged Stolen Romney Returns will show he gave 10 Billion dollars to save orphan kittens.

Your move, Obama!

This whole story is not exactly credible, and the request for a bitcoin ransom pretty much gives the game away.

[zbdent]

5. They're probably in this picture of Romney's "spontaneous" worshippers ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021302549

[meow2u3]

7. This seems to have Rove's fingerprints all over it

Either that, or it's satire being passed off as news.