Even from a purely self-interested perspective ignoring the illegality and immorality of breaking into someone's private information, the Democratic campaign mo

Even from a purely self-interested perspective ignoring the illegality and immorality of breaking into someone's private information, the Democratic campaign most definitely doesn't want any release of tax returns tainted. What would be ideal for them is if Romney overreacted and released them on his own to pre-empt their release. As a second best alternative, if everyone just forgot about this anonymous criminal and someone plausibly unrelated released them later on. Any release by this guy would result in a conversation centered around the release itself, not the tax documents.