A Sea Of Red

Intern sold Civil War items on eBay
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer Thu Mar 15, 11:00 PM ET

PHILADELPHIA - An intern with the National Archives stole about 165 Civil War documents — including the War Department's announcement of President Lincoln's death — and sold most of them on eBay, prosecutors charged Thursday.

Denning McTague, who runs a Web site that sells rare books, worked at a National Archives and Records Administration site in Philadelphia last summer, prosecutors said.

McTague, 40, of Philadelphia, has helped officials recover most of the missing items and plans to plead guilty, his lawyer said.

The stolen documents include telegrams concerning troops' weaponry, the Lincoln death announcement sent to soldiers, and a letter from famed Confederate cavalryman James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, prosecutors said.

The sale of one of the items on eBay aroused suspicion and led to the investigation, National Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper said. The office of U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said that all but a handful of the items have been recovered.

McTague, who holds master's degrees in history and information systems, secured the unpaid internship through an affiliation with a university, court papers state. The papers do not name the university, but Cooper said a professor at New York's State University at Albany recommended McTague.

McTague had been responsible for arranging and organizing documents in preparation for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Civil War. As an intern, he may not have had to go through the security checks mandated for volunteers and visiting researchers, Cooper said.

McTague's lawyer, Eric Sitarchuk, declined to comment on the value of the stolen items, which was listed only as more than $1,000 in court documents.

A telephone number for McTague could not immediately be determined, and he did not immediately respond to a query sent to his Web site.

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A 40-year old intern?

I guess that's what they with their lives after being interns for creepy senators...

Libertine wrote:A 40-year old intern?

They just made a movie about this type of guy. They just changed the last word.

Of course, I've never seen that movie because it's out of the Liberty Way.

Come on, SJ, the Liberty Way doesn't apply on break.

thats not true. one of my buddies got reps for goin to a club over a break

As mentioned earlier, sacrasim is hard to detect on a forum. I think SJ got it, though.

ohhh gotcha

SuperJon wrote:

Libertine wrote:A 40-year old intern?

They just made a movie about this type of guy. They just changed the last word.

Of course, I've never seen that movie because it's out of the Liberty Way.

But that movie (which I have never seen) is hilarious (or so I'm told). I laughed so hard that I almost peed myself (for no related reason).

TDDance234 wrote:Come on, SJ, the Liberty Way doesn't apply on break.

It also doesn't apply when you buy the unrated version before you start school at Liberty.

Question: does the rating system apply if you download a copy of the movie that's been pirated from some Russian dude who recorded it on a Betamax Handicam in a theater in Vladivostok? Just curious.

i'd say no if its in russian... your missin all the bad stuff cause you cant understand it

What if I turn the subtitles on?

then your eligible for reps
so go ahead and watch the real thing

unrated versions are still against the way if the regular version is R. HOWEVER one exception was made. Saving Private Ryan airs edit free on ABC every memorial day. If you record it, it's yours to watch over and over.

I bought the unrated and watched it before I was a student here, so I didn't break the Liberty Way.