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sometimes raw inner workings of Menino's City Hall, where the mayor's political interests are fiercely. protected by his most senior aides. Seemingly no issue is too mundane to rise to the concern of the mayor's Cabinet officials. Kineavy's e-mails, for example, show him overseeing everything from an annual Christmas trolley tour to a blown street light on Beacon Hill, to the jerseys that will bear the mayor's name in a youth football league in Charlestown. The e-mails show senior mayoral aides attempting to shut down potential critics -canceling, for example, a city councilor's tour of a partially built branch library in Mattapan out of concern that the councilor would begin raising questions about the project. The aides also closely watch neighborhood disputes, such as one involving a community center in South Boston, as well as City Hall hiring decisions. In his first public comments about the deleted e-mails, Kineavy yesterday said that even though he was double-deleting every day for five years -dragging a-mails to the trash and then emptying the trash - he thought his a-mails still would be saved on city backup servers. "I'm sorry for making that assumption, because I feel like I caused a lot of people headaches, a lot of people in this room who have worked hard to try to get things back," said Kineavy, who was flanked by four city lawyers and the mayor's press secretary in a City Hall conference room. "I made an assumption, it was a wrong assumption, and that's what it was." Secretary of State William F. Galvin said his office had not determined yet whether the city's actions have fully satisfied his order, saying he had not yet reviewed what the city had recovered so far. "If there's a significant body of material that seems to be missing, we'll have to ask them about that," he said. Galvin had ordered the city to seize Kineavy's hard drive and hire a forensics firm to try to retrieve his deleted a-mails last week after the Globe reported that Kineavy had been deleting them in possible violation of state public records law. The revelation came after the newspaper's public records request for six months' worth of Kineavy's e-mails turned up only 18 messages, and city officials blamed the low number on his double-deletion habit. State public records law requires municipal employees to save a-mail for two years, even if the contents are of "no informational or evidential value." Violations can result in fines of up to $500 or one year in prison. City officials complied with Calvin's order by seizing Kineavy's hard drive and hiring a computer forensics firm, StoneTurn Group, to recover Kineavy's e-mails. But an initial forensic examination of the hard drive turned up only 60 e-mails, so city officials combed through other city in-boxes instead.