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- First show I have seen in some time where 60 Minutes sounded like 60 Minutes!! Great show!
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- Why aren't these schmucks behind bars for essentially stealing our history?...............How did Currie get to remove items and take them home without any problem?
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- Kudos to 60 minutes for correcting an error in this story. In the trailer posted on Friday, The Archives Inspector General is introduced as "Former Secret Service Agent Paul Brachfeld." Paul Brachfeld was never a Secret Service Agent. In the version that aired, this error was corrected and he was introduced as "Former Secret Service employee Paul Brachfeld." Is this important? It is to the Special Agents and Uniformed Officers of the Secret Service who put their lives on the line every day.
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- Archives Inspector General Brachfeld's lust for personal glory destroyed the team that conducted the investigation described in this episode. His efforts to enable this 60 minutes episode damaged the investigation and did irreparable damage to his offices ability to conduct future investigations. 60 minutes has nothing to be proud of here.
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- To me it is both humorous and somewhat shocking that the Inspector General for the recovery of missing National Archives items found Landau's "deep pocket" wardrobe "fascinating". The esteemed IG apparently never heard of a common shop-lifter's basic tool-the booster coat!
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- These factory owners should invest more in Americans and less in their own pocket. Who do you think buys your products???? Maybe the fact you keep laying us off is the reason you are not selling that many products and oh yes, "note to self" NEVER BUY SMANKS". nOT IMPROTANT THAT I KNOW HOW TO SPELL SINCE I WILL NEVER BUY IT!!!
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- I found the story reporting lacking. I would have expected a few basic questions answered such as:
1. How did landau get caught? Your report said by an alert archivest - but how?
2. Why didn't Betty Currie report the missing items? Had she it would not have gone on so long?
3. How about all the other documents - didn't they ever get reported as missing? - Reply to this comment
- Although this story is relevant, there are larger thefts going on that are of equal American proportions. What about reporting on the amazonian theft by Wall Street and confronting the players on the street in New York? What about exposing the fact that the entire Wall Street mechanism is a fraudulent extraction mechanism that has zero value but negative impact on the entire economy? What about reporting that globalism doesn't serve any nation, but only companies?
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- How did this guy only get a 7 year sentence for a crime of this magnitude against this country, that is as insane as the crimes them self's, WOW!
This guy should have gotten 25 to life. What the Hell happened? That is noyt even a slap on the wrist. I think 60 minutes needs to investigate the people that prosecuted him.This is a punch in the face to the American people that he stole from. - Reply to this comment
- As I watched your program on Sunday October 28 on Barry Landau stealing documents from museums around the United States, I found it odd that you did not concider Betty Currie's collection stolen. She did not pay for it. Those documents belong to the Americans that have paid their taxes. She had no right to take Federal documents from the White House. We the taxpayers paid for those notes and the paper they were written on. I find it strange that you would do an article on treasured archives and do not think these will someday be treaures.
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