From the Washington Post:

A Virginia man who had research access to the National Archives pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than 100 Civil War-era documents from the historic records depository, including letters from Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman and George Armstrong Custer.

In his plea agreement, Howard W. Harner Jr., 68, of Staunton, Va., said that he received more than $47,000 from the illegal sale of many of the documents. About 40 items have been recovered, according to an Archives official…

…Harner stole 118 documents by hiding them in his clothing, according to Wainstein and Sarah T. Chasson, an assistant U.S. attorney who is prosecuting the case…

Speaking of document filchers, what has former Clintonite and pants-stuffer Sandy Berg(l)er been up to, anyway? Wouldja believe: criticizing the Bush administration’s lax national security policies.

Someone tell the federal grand jury investigating the National Archives Berg(l)er-y to hurry it up.

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