Cassidy asks why he won't release them:
It’s only fair to assume that Mitt is doing what he always does: acting on the basis of a careful cost-benefit analysis. Will’s comments on this were spot on: "The cost of not releasing the returns are clear," he said. "Therefore, [Romney] must have calculated that there are higher costs in releasing them." But what information could the earlier tax returns contain that would be so damaging if it were brought out into the open?
Tomasky suspects that Romney will release the returns without releasing them:
My guess is that Romney will do that thing that really rich people often do, which is allow select reporters (that is to say, not anyone who knows details about taxes, like David Cay Johnston) to come to a sealed room, relinquish their cell phones, and spend three hours looking at a huge stack of returns but not take copies away. No one will learn anything and he'll then go out and say hey, we released them, and I'm clean.
He should follow his father's precedent. And every reporter should ask him if he believes his father was too transparent a politician.
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