In the Globe, Frank Phillips reports that Mitt Romney approved a tax-exempt bond for a Planned Parenthood clinic last year, just two months before he left office and began talking about his anti-abortion stance. (I guess we can now call this a wide stance.)

A Romney spokesman said that the loan was made by an agency that does not report to the Massachusetts governor. That’s technically true…but in Romney’s case, it doesn’t sound actually true, as Phillips writes.

While Romney’s campaign said the agency that authorized the deal, MassDevelopment, is an autonomous authority, it was controlled by Romney appointees. Several of its 11-member board were top officials in the Romney administration, including Ranch Kimball, the chairman who was also Romney’s secretary of economic development.

Whatever happened, this isn’t going to help Romney now, just five days before the Iowa caucuses. Ouch! Someone timed this leak well….a Massachusetts Democrat? Oppo researchers for another campaign?