7/13/2007

Civil War document thief sentenced

He got 15 months. He was angry because other interns were paid and he was not. He needed the money. "Federal authorities were able to recover 161 of the 164 documents."

The warmed-over hackwork of the Associated Press appears here and the richer local reporting appears here.

Would it be too much to ask the National Archives to start copying everything in their holdings right now?