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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WTF?!
One would hope!
FLASHBACKS:
On Aug. 22, 1996, just before the Democratic National Convention,
Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI.
mmediately after this meeting, as it happened,
all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.
MORE?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts
GORELICK GATE - various FR links
PARTIAL LIST OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES IGNORED BY BERGER, GORELICK, CLARKE and CLINTON
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
========== Documents Ignored by the 911 Commission linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========
Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.
====== Calendar Ignored by the 911 Commission Linking Preknowledge of the 911 Atrocities Worldwide ==================
The Islamic 911 Attack Calendar which was distriibuted worldwide the year before
the terrorists murdered 3000 Americans per hour in the 911 Atrocities.
September 2001 is shown along with the 911 attack months in advance.
Hundreds were in the offices of Gorelick's, Kean's, and other Commission clients and the UN.
Who's Who on the 9/11 "Independent" Commission
"According to a 1998 Senate testimony of former CIA director James
Woolsey, powerful financier Khalid bin Mahfouz’ younger sister is
married to Osama bin Laden,. (US Senate, Senate Judiciary
Committee, Federal News Service, 3 Sept. 1998, See also Wayne
Madsen, Questionable Ties, In These Times,12 Nov. 2001 )
Bin Mahfouz is suspected to have funneled millions of dollars to the Al
Qaeda network.(See Tom Flocco, Scoop.co.nz 28 Aug. 2002)
Now, "by sheer coincidence", former New Jersey governor Thomas
Kean has business ties with bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi.
Thomas Kean is a director (and shareholder) of Amerada Hess
Corporation , which is involved in the Hess-Delta joint venture with
Delta Oil of Saudi Arabia (owned by the bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi
clans)...
Now you would think that being a business partner of the brother in
law and alleged financier of "Enemy No. 1" would also be considered a
bona fide "conflict of interest", particularly when your mandate --as
part of the 9/11 Commission's work-- is to investigate "Enemy No. 1".
"(Michel Chossudovsky, New Chairman of 9/11 Commission had
business ties with Osama's Brother in Law,
Centre for Research on Globalization, December 2002 )
Commissioner Kean: "Ms Gorelick is one of the finest members
of the commission and one of the most bipartisan members.
People ought to stay out of our business"
911 Commission Meets
[b]I FIGURED IT OUT!!!![/b]
This is it!!! This is how Clinton is sinking Kerry's ship!! Send Berger on a mission and get him nailed!
It's Hillary in 08!
In a certain park, right....and Hillary was the last person to see him!!
No, sir. These matters make me go barf.
"I have no intention of resigning," Berger told reporters in Guatemala City, where he was accompanying Clinton on a tour of Latin America.
The fallout continued Wednesday(cira 1999) from the firing earlier in the week of a scientist at Los Alamos, one of more than a dozen labs scattered around the country, after the scientist had been the target of three-year FBI espionage investigation.
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Berger said in testimony earlier this year that during the millennium period, "we thwarted threats and I do believe it was important to bring the principals together on a frequent basis" to more regularly consider terror threats.
The missing documents involve two or three draft versions of the report as it was evolving and being refined by the Clinton administration, according to officials and lawyers. The Archives is believed to have copies of some of the missing documents.
Somewhere hades is freezing over . . .
The radio nets are leading with it too. Berger's response is theeee MOST incriminating response I can imagine. He's screwed and he knows it. Caught him red-handed. Now the question is......why?
They both accompanied Clinton on his 1998 Africa trip:
Official Delegation Accompanying the President to Africa March 20, 1998
Samuel Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Joe Wilson Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for African Affairs
Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Sandy Berger March 31, 1998
MR. BERGER: I think this is either the second or third countrythat's gone through training. There are countries are in various stages.Some of them have said they want to participate. What they do is theydesignate their own units, who will then train in a way that could makethem interoperable.
MR. MCCURRY: Remind your colleagues that Joe Wilson and Susan Ricedid a whole review of the status of ACRI when we were in Kampela.
They're both also associated with New American Strategies for Security and Peace:
New American Strategies for Security and Peace Advisory Committee:
Samuel R. Berger
New American Strategies for Security and Peace Speeches:
Panel Two: Richard Holbrooke, Joseph C. Wilson, Flynt Leverett, Jessica Stern, Major General William L. Nash, USA (Ret.)
BTW is Sandy Berger related to Daniel Berger?
LOBBYING: How Cozy Is Too Cozy?
CREW has been active only since February, so its profile is still relatively low. Yet Republicans detect a strong Democratic orientation. Sloan, most recently an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is a former aide to Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; then-Rep. (now Sen.) Charles Schumer, D- N.Y.; and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. In addition, CREW's three board members are Mark Penn, President Clinton's former pollster; Daniel Berger, a trial lawyer from Philadelphia and a Clinton fundraiser; and Louis Mayberg, the president of a mutual fund company.
Thank you. I am just livid that they are going to get away with this by having the MSM cover it up.
You don't think he'll "roll over one more time?"
-PJ
Amazing how dirty they are. I am still stunned by this news. Stunned.
Off topic: Just got home a few hours ago and trying to get caught up. There's a thread that the Oil for Food Scandal $$ is tied DIRECTLY to terrorists. So our tax dollars are being used to fund terrorism and it's killing our soldiers. I could scream.
I'm assuming he didn't tell Kerry, because if Kerry knew this and kept him on board - Kerry's toast for lack of judgment.
If "Hillary" is behind it it will be spun as a Kerry operation.
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