Quick, give Mittins some paper to tear on camera...
Pelosi handed him one. Turned out to be a Bill of Rights copy.
He saw the TV camera light go on and just tore it.
2003 news story: WASHINGTON -- The FBI has recovered a valuable copy of the Bill of Rights that had been missing for 138 years, officials said Wednesday.
The FBI estimated the document, one of 14 copies of the Bill of Rights commissioned by President George Washington, is worth $30 million, but experts said it is impossible to set a price on it.
According to legend, it was stolen from North Carolina by a Union soldier at the end of the Civil War. "A carpetbagger took it in 1865," said one official. "It's really priceless." The document was recovered by the FBI in Philadelphia Tuesday in an undercover operation when an individual attempted to sell it, officials said.
Note: No one mentioned any involvement in the case by a certain Monsieur Pierre Delecto.