NYT - Archives Investigates Loss of Roberts File (plus New Papers coming)

[Starfury]

Archives Investigates Loss of Roberts File

By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: August 18, 2005

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 - The National Archives started a formal investigation Wednesday into the loss of a file of Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s papers on affirmative action from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Senate Democrats, preparing for hearings on Judge Roberts's nomination to the Supreme Court, had asked Tuesday for the investigation. They noted that Bush administration officials had reviewed the files in July before they went missing.

Members of the archives staff have said the loss of the file was their own clerical error, and they have already made public a facsimile of the file's contents reconstructed from other records. The archives said Wednesday that Reagan library staff members believed that the other records and computer databases had enabled them to reconstruct everything in the file independently.

The archives said that on Thursday it would release 38,546 additional pages of documents from Judge Roberts work in the Reagan White House. That batch will bring the number of pages released to 51,285.

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Based on what we've seen so far, this should be interesting....

http://nytimes.com/2005/08/18/politics/18roberts.html

[democrat in Tallahassee]

1. Perhaps they are with Bush's military files?

[shanti]

6. hellllo!

but of course! it's absurd to think otherwise.

[BlueManDude]

2. More from Wapo

A file folder containing papers from Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s work on affirmative action more than 20 years ago disappeared from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after its review by two lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department in July, according to officials at the library and the National Archives and Records Administration.









http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601457.html

[Quakerfriend]

3. I find it hard to believe

that they could "reconstruct everything in the file independently"!!

[Starfury]

4. Exactly. How would they know? n/t

[BlueManDude]

5. Check this incredible WH quote

White House spokesman Steve Schmidt said that notes taken by the Justice Department lawyer provided the archivists "with the road map to reconstruct the file." He praised the library for doing a job that "normally would have taken three months in three weeks," sorting through tens of thousands of pages of documents and making them available as quickly as possible.

"Hopefully that missing folder will turn up at the library," he said. "But what's most important is for people to understand the remarkable job that the staff at the Reagan Library did."



So the missing file isn't important but the remarkable job that the hacks over at the Raygun Library did in hiding and "losing" the file is. Wow. Just wow.

[leftylady]

7. Oh, for God's Sake - Can't they do better than that?

This is such an amazing time.

[hang a left]

8. I wonder how many streets, roads, lanes, and

boulevards were left off of the map?

Seriously, do they think people really believe this crap. Funny how these are the specific papers Clinton mentioned last month that should be explored.

Nominated.

[mom cat]

9. Perfectly reconstructed ...except for the 18 minute gap!