Posted on 07/19/2004 5:07:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos
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By JOHN SOLOMON
WASHINGTON - President Clinton (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation after admitting he removed highly classified terrorism documents from a secure reading room during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, The Associated Press has learned.
Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI (news - web sites) agents armed with warrants. Some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing.
Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed handwritten notes he had taken from classified anti-terror documents he reviewed at the National Archives by sticking them in his jacket and pants. He also inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio, they said.
"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of withholding documents from the commission, and to the contrary, to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced," Berger said in a statement to the AP.
Berger served as Clinton's national security adviser for all of the president's second term and most recently has been informally advising Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites). Clinton asked Berger last year to review and select the administration documents that would be turned over to the commission.
The FBI searched Berger's home and office with warrants earlier this year after employees of the National Archives told agents they believed they witnessed Berger put documents into his clothing while reviewing sensitive Clinton administration papers, officials said.
When asked, Berger said he returned some of the classified documents, which he found in his office, and all of the handwritten notes he had taken from the secure room, but said he could not locate two or three copies of the highly classified millennium terror report.
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National Archives employees told agents they believed they saw Berger place documents in his clothing while reading sensitive Clinton administration papers and that some documents were missing, officials said.
Gee... if you take Sandy Berger's initials out, and turn them around you get...
Here is my last question for today/tonight:
If this happened in October and he claims he returned them within a week and is cooperating, WHY is this STILL being investigated?
Why hasn't the FBI or any prosecutor spoken with him?
What could be taking this long?
The timeline is definitely puzzling.
I'm off to DU to view the carnage. : )
stunning... but not surprising!
If you ask me, it seems the clinton administration has always had a documentation problem. That problem has extended into just about every government agency DOJ, FBI, NSA, and the National archives just to name a few off the top of my head.
IMHO, if that is the case, then that is quite a few mountains of documents to sort through to figure out what has been altered or is missing -- far more than Enron and that was called a complicated case.
It is only an educated guess...
Yeah, and on a day Kerry is "on vacation". I wonder if they knew this was coming and wanted Kerry to keep his head down for a few days.
Beats me. I'm still waiting for someone to speak to Murray Waas about that 20,000-page CIA document dump.
Good night!
As always comes to mind when these things surface.....
"ALL PIGS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME PIGS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
No mention of him being a Kerry adviser... :(
hehe ! Magic. :^D
Right here, Bill!!
Insubordinate as can be but hey who cares.
Right in the crack!
Although it would be more accurate for the headlines to read, "Kerry Aide Investigated..." the current headlines will be a continual reminder of all the corruption Bill and Hillary dragged our country through. Now, four years later, there's a new scandal with their name on it! I say keep the headlines just as they are.
Happy Anniversary, Howlin!
Happy anniversary!
This is absolute HUGE!!
The Dems have quite the scandal on their hands. Berger should be going to prison for this, no doubt.
We are to believe he "accidently" stole classified documents, and THEN he "accidently" lost some of them??
Sorry, but I'm not buying that bridge. This is a coverup, and we better DEMAND that the focus be kept on this issue until we see him in an orange jump suit!
The gang on FNC this morning showed a copy of the NYT with the story buried on page A17. LOL. The Grey Lady, and I use that tern loosely, just loves dropping her drawers for the Left.
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