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