Boston’s recently aborted bid to host the 2024 Olympics was a big, hairy political mess around these parts, so it’s no surprise that journalists are filing legal requests to access text messages sent and received by Mayor Marty Walsh during the final days of the drama.

What is surprising is one of the city’s excuses for denying the requests: It claims to lack the “technical capacity.”

Needless to say, no one is buying, including, one would assume, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who might be in a whole lot less hot water if not for copies of text messages the team somehow managed to provide to the NFL.

From a story in the Boston Globe (I’m a subscriber; you may hit a paywall):

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