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Hundreds of Items Missing From National Archives
Washington Post ^ | 12/04/2004 | Jacqueline Trescott

Posted on 12/04/2004 8:33:11 AM PST by Phlap

Hundreds of letters and photographs are missing from the National Archives and its regional offices, including one presidential library. Many are suspected stolen.

The extent of the losses is detailed in a series of reports from the organization's investigative office, but the value of the items is difficult to determine because that is largely measured by historic importance and rarity.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berger; checkclintonliebrary; cheney; lincolnbust; missing; nara; nationalarchives; sandyberger; stolendocs; stolendocuments; theft
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OBI-WAN
That's impossible… perhaps the archives are incomplete.

JOCASTA NU
The archives are comprehensive and totally secure, my young Jedi. One thing you may be absolutely sure of - if an item does not appear in our records, it does not exist!


21 posted on 12/04/2004 10:21:55 AM PST by Momaw Nadon (By the time you read this tagline you've already read it.)
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To: Phlap
I once worked four years for the Navy; every day I would bring home a pen in my pocket and every morning I would try to make sure I took it back.

When I resigned I searched the drawers and came up with over two dozen pens that I had somehow forgotten.

Odd, so many pens just hiding about - too bad I never found any missing socks.

22 posted on 12/04/2004 10:25:56 AM PST by Old Professer (The accidental trumps the purposeful in every endeavor attended by the incompetent.)
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To: Phlap
The Archives has no strict registration system for most of the 10 billion items held around the country.

Um . . . why?

23 posted on 12/04/2004 10:30:53 AM PST by JanetteS (www.CommonSenseRunsWild.com)
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To: Phlap
"They should check Sanndy Berger's pants."

Or Bubba's trailer.

.


24 posted on 12/04/2004 11:20:44 AM PST by sweetliberty (Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we should.)
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To: Calpernia; Velveeta

Ping


25 posted on 12/04/2004 2:02:23 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)
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To: Phlap
In its most publicized case of theft, a cache of presidential pardons and other materials valued at $100,000 was stolen by Shawn P. Aubitz, an Archives employee for 16 years in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced in July 2002 to 21 months in federal prison.

Want to bet Sandy Berger does not get a sentence like this?

26 posted on 12/04/2004 2:59:49 PM PST by foolscap
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To: sweetliberty
Bubba has the ugliest trailer in Arkansas. Wonder what a tornado sweeping thru the area would do to this cheap trailer park?
27 posted on 12/04/2004 3:35:25 PM PST by BARLF
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To: BARLF
"Wonder what a tornado sweeping thru the area would do to this cheap trailer park?"

Probably improve it.

28 posted on 12/04/2004 3:39:23 PM PST by sweetliberty (Just because we CAN do something, doesn't mean we should.)
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To: Phlap

There once was a Burglar named Sandy
Whose pants made him look downright randy
But the lump in his drawers
When he walked out the door
Was 'Top Secret', not that of a dandy!


29 posted on 12/04/2004 4:36:00 PM PST by EternalVigilance (The question is not: 'Is God on our side?', but, 'are we on God's side?')
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To: Alamo-Girl; Shermy; Cindy; Fedora

fyi


30 posted on 12/04/2004 7:02:41 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Phlap

They should check Algore's house too.

"Former Vice President Al Gore did not return a bust of Abraham Lincoln that he had "inadvertently" taken from the White House until Vice President Dick Cheney inquired about the missing item six months after taking office, a General Accounting Office report on the incident reveals...

"The investigation concluded that the former vice president kept the priceless White House sculpture until July 2001, when he was challenged by an unnamed Cheney counsel."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/700409/posts


31 posted on 12/04/2004 7:10:00 PM PST by texasbluebell
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To: piasa

Thanks!


32 posted on 12/04/2004 7:12:05 PM PST by Fedora
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To: AppyPappy
I hope they didn't lose the Ark of the Covenant.

Well, they lost it, but they still have it. It's in a big warehouse somewhere among thousands of other crates.

;O)

33 posted on 12/04/2004 7:12:15 PM PST by Petronski (WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Robots may be Robots themselves.)
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To: BARLF

A Tornado won't touch that place, its too skanky.


34 posted on 12/04/2004 7:17:19 PM PST by KingNo155 (Terrorist are best served at room temperature when one expects company)
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To: piasa

Thanks for the ping!


35 posted on 12/04/2004 9:22:50 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Phlap

Looting the National Archive isn't something to be laughed at.


36 posted on 12/04/2004 9:34:37 PM PST by primeval patriot
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To: Phlap

re-ping


37 posted on 10/11/2006 1:56:15 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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