Boston mayor Tom Menino is in double trouble: His administration’s e-mails are AWOL, and the Boston Globe editorial board thinks City Hall is FUBAR.

Start with the elusive e-mails. As Sunday’s Globe reported:

Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s administration, prompted by public records requests from the Globe, has acknowledged that city employees were routinely deleting e-mails, a potential violation of the state public records law.

In Monday’s Globe, Boston city attorney Bill Sinnott tested out this defense:

Sinnott said he saw “no evidence of any willful or intentional attempt to delete e-mails of substantive or evidentiary value.’’

Puh-leeze – how can he know that they have no “substantive or evidentiary value” when he hasn’t even seen them?

But worse for Menino, the Globe editorial board seems to be waging jihad against him.

First there was the Globe editorial panning of Menino’s first mayoral debate performance. Now comes Monday’s Globe editorial absolutely eviscerating the four-term Boston mayor. Favorite passage:

But even as he has come to tower over the city, his lamentable pettiness has persisted. Indeed, those who deal regularly with City Hall, be they developers or activists or other government officials, know they must treat this mayor with kid gloves.

Lamentable pettiness – that’s Menino all over.

As if that weren’t enough, here’s the Globe editors’ boffo finish:

After 16 years, there’s little reason to believe that Menino will change. A fifth term would mean more of the hardworking mayor who never tires of meeting with constituents and discussing their concerns. But it would also mean a perpetuation of his temperamental, vindictive governing style.

That’s what we call an e (for editorial)-mauling.