National
Archives' Investigation into Missing Papers of Chief Justice John Roberts
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"Report of Investigation: John G. Roberts' Missing File" by the Office of Inspector General, National Archives and Records Administration, 27 September 2005. |
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Update [12 May 2006]: This report, first released by The Memory Hole, has generated stories in the National Law Journal, Washington Post, UPI, and Slate. |
Introduction >>> On 17 August 2005, the Washington Post reported:
The Inspector General of the National Archives launched a criminal investigation, which ended in late September 2005. The investigation was inconclusive to say the least, as the Inspector General still has no idea "whether the missing file was taken intentionally, unintentionally, or lost." However, the report does add some new information to the mystery. For example, in contradiction to the Washington Post's article, the administration lawyers did have unsupervised access to the documents at some points:
This report has not been previously released. It was supplied in paper form to Washington, DC-area researcher Michael Ravnitzky by the National Archives and Records Administration. All redaction is, of course, NARA's doing. |
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