Whoops!

What have they got to hide?

Documents wind up missing from public archives for many reasons. Sometimes they're shelved or labeled incorrectly, or lost, and sometimes they're even stolen.

At the U.S. National Archives, documents have been disappearing since 1999 because intelligence officials had wanted them to.

The new director of the National Archives, Allen Weinstein, rightly put a stop to this nonsense as soon as he heard about it.