Mother Jones points out this morning, as Max did earlier this month, that Mike Huckabee probably isn’t the one to be lecturing Hillary Clinton on government transparency, recounting a saga familiar to longtime readers:

As Mother Jones reported in 2011, Huckabee destroyed his administration’s state records before leaving office in 2007. … 

Even before he destroyed his hard drives rather than grant the public access to his records, Huckabee took a combative approach to public records requests. When Arkansas Times editor Max Brantley (who has also weighed in on Huckabee’s transparency record) requested documents from Huckabee in 1995, the then-lieutenant governor flipped out. In a press release issued by his campaign, he attacked Brantley as a “disgruntled and embittered wannabe editor” from a “trashy little tabloid”—and went after Brantley’s wife, a Clinton judicial appointee, for good measure. All because the editor filed a request for records every citizen was entitled to.