Have documents been shredded again?

The Bredesen Administration has a well-documented history of shredding official documents. Now, the question is being asked if files related to Bredesen's Watergate have been shredded to protect the guilty. Given the administration's history, can we trust them to conduct their own, internal investigation? Terry Frank asks the tough questions:

And Schrade on Democrat State Representative Gary Odom who is calling for an independent investigation (thank you, sir):

Odom said he did not care to get in a direct confrontation with the governor, also a Democrat, but again called for the list of names to be released. He said it’s possible to pursue the matter through the legislative committee oversight process.

“Now it’s time to examine options available to us, and that’s something I intend to do,” Odom said. “Committees have subpoena (power). The obvious issue, is this a public document already? I think it is.”

I would suggest that Odom act immediately and seize all communications asap. Why? Here is good cause, as showcased by Schrade:

The department, in a carefully worded news release, also contradicted information previously reported that Shirley had run checks on as many as 300 people. The department’s statement said “our preliminary investigation” determined 182 checks were run by Shirley from October 19, 2006, until July 3, 2008 — when Shirley’s access to the portal was cut off pending the investigation.

So how did we get the department moving from 300 down to 182? Was some information scrubbed?Eliminated? Destroyed? Are the remaining 182 names in fact names where the evidence or trail cannot be hidden? Are we to trust their own investigation when we go from 300 to 182?