Another Reason for Asking the Most Important Question

The legal saga stemming from Matt Blunt's Scott Eckersley scandal continues.  Yesterday we learned that Blunt's legal team had begun sending subpoenas to reporters whom it wishes to depose, presumably about the black-bag materials that were delivered to them as part of the effort to defame Scott Eckersley.

The legal wrangling, while interesting, tends to detract attention from the most important question surrounding the entire Eckersley affair --a question on which we've never really seen any answers pursued. 

The question?  What precisely was included in emails sent and received by Governor Matt Blunt that would cause him to 1) break record retention laws in order to hide them; 2) terminate and launch a smear campaign against a staffer whose principles didn't comport with his plan to destroy those records; and 3) decide not to seek a second term in hopes of cooling the public fervor for finding out exactly what was in his hidden email messages? 

Whatever was in Matt Blunt's emails must have been so shocking, so embarrassing or so scandalous that all of the fairly remarkable and unprecedented steps which his administration took to keep them hidden must have seemed a political necessity.  All of which make it ever more critical that the public and press find out, with no exceptions, all of what was included in the governor's missives.