AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [Sandy Berger is the focus of a criminal investigation]

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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.

[Peach]

There is a Today show thread now about this matter.

It sounds like Gergen tried to imply it's a Republican dirty trick to release this information before the convention and the release of the 9/11 Commission report.

The Rats, who generally leak like crazy, haven't leaked anything since October about this matter. If we did it, I'm delighted and glad we waited until this week. Turnabuot is fair play.

[combat_boots]

Or it was Clinton's job to have a great economy while gutting the military and security defenses of the US in the process, thereby reducing national world standing in the lead up to the takeover.........

[mewzilla]

Yeah, Gergen. Pubbies stood right by Sandy Berger and made him shove classified documents down his pants in violation of procedure and Federal law.

Gergen, you miserable excuse for an American, how the heck can you shill for these people?!

[Just mythoughts]

"In order to construct a workable timeline from October 2003 on, we'd have to go through all the news stories day by day. Trying to see how the news fits in with what we are finding out now. Anydbody up for a spread sheet? LOL"


Isn't that the truth.

[Just mythoughts]

"CNN has been airing this story every half hour -- it's now 4:30am Eastern.

No mention of him being a Kerry adviser... :("


Poor CNN, this story must have caught them out of "left" field.

[Sacajaweau]

The bottom line is that:

Whatever was taken was important enough to sneak out in your pants.

Whatever was destroyed was important enough to be destroyed.

Since it ALL refers to the Clinton Administration, Bubba and Hillary must have something on Berger bigtime. We call it blackmail.

Guess Foster and Brown didn't go along with the blackmail routine. And Monica, she was just plain smarter than the smartest woman in the world.

Someday it will come out that Hillary knew about Monica for a very long time and they did everything they could to retrieve "The Blue Dress".

[theophilusscribe]

Berger takes a classified report and loses it? The very report that was never given to Bush. The very report that has al Qaeda info that Clinton claims he gave to Bush. Nope. They hid this info from the Bush team. They have been caught in a lie of monumental proportion. TWA Flight 800 is proceeding in court. For OKC, Jayna Davis is making the rounds on more talk shows. She will be on COAST TO COAST at the beginning of August. What has been going on with Clinton agents in the FBI is starting to unravel. It may all come apart on him and on the RATS. It is a house of cards.

I completely agree with you dfu. Get ready for the "October Surprise." I think that we are going to be downright, 100%, absolutely amazed at the stuff that comes out in the next couple of months.

Let's hope that President Bush has pulled off the greatest rope-a-dope in political history . . .

[Brilliant]

Berger was trying to cover up documents that were embarrassing to him and to Clinton.

[Sacajaweau]

Believing that all things are connected, one of the things that came up was that, with LosAlamos as the main topic, Berger was asked to resign in March and April of 1999. The Chinese Embassy was bombed on May 8, 1999. Who died that day?? If I remember correctly, Bubba himself chose all the missle strikes personally.

Now, LosAlamos is in the news again and so is Berger.

[Grampa Dave]

The whole Clintoon administration should be tried for treason.

If found guilty, they should be hung outside the DNC and left to hang there to remind other rats what awaits their acts of treason.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Grampa Dave]

Have the mediots running this story, blame GW.

[nicmarlo]

It sounds like Gergen tried to imply it's a Republican dirty trick to release this information before the convention and the release of the 9/11 Commission report.

Yeah, what a dirty trick that the Pubbies outed a thief...it is the Pubbies' fault, after all, that Berger stole those documents from the National Archive.

We had a PLAN.......get Berger to steal national security documents from the National Archives....then make sure the "informer" tips off the left-wing alphabet channels at the right time (just before the conventions and 9/11 Report)....then make sure that Couric asks softball questions of Gergen.....

We pubbies are such great MASTERMINDS of everything ILLEGAL the RATS do.

Why, it almost reads like we are gods or something....

Actually, I really think that the Rats give us Pubbies too much credit! : )

[Rebelbase]

Late to the party bump.

[pageonetoo]

They're guilty as hell, and who needs a trial, to expose it. We all know, yet these people prance around like the king and queen of the world... it makes all of us sick...I believe most sickening, because they are doing it in our face (I still remember the picture of slimebill with the cigar in the window, dancing after the decision not to impeach! I also remember the Ron Brown funeral laughter, and tears...for the camera)

It just makes me sick! They should be hung from the porch of the White House, and left for the buzzards!

[Just mythoughts]

"Believing that all things are connected, one of the things that came up was that, with LosAlamos as the main topic, Berger was asked to resign in March and April of 1999. The Chinese Embassy was bombed on May 8, 1999. Who died that day?? If I remember correctly, Bubba himself chose all the missle strikes personally."


"Now, LosAlamos is in the news again and so is Berger."


True. We have not been told to whom the "classified" material was e-mailed to via non-secure transmission at LosAlamos.

The other thing that we do not know is what role Hillry played in National Security. So wonder why Tenet really left. Could it be because of Berger?

[pageonetoo]

They should be hung from the porch of the White House, and left for the buzzards!

Then, we should nuke the Chicoms, before it is too late (if it ain't already, thanks to Loral, and the other buddies of slimebill)

[Timeout]

An interesting snip from the WashPost article this morning. (Note: the article is buried inside the paper AND is obviously written from interview with Berger's atty. AND the headline says he "inadvertently" removed the docs.)

One or more missing versions of the 15-page memo could not be located among Berger's possessions, and he thinks he probably discarded the papers, Breuer said.

15 pages?!!!

[Grampa Dave]

"It just makes me sick! They should be hung from the porch of the White House, and left for the buzzards!"

They defiled the White House enough during the Clintoon reign of terror and treason.

Hang them and leave their bodies to rot hanging around the DNC as a warning to other rats who laugh at acts of treason.

[Sacajaweau]

Gergen sounded exactly like Hillary saying poor Bubba was a victim of the right wing conspiracy. After that, it was just a matter of lieing, lieing, and lieing.....until Bubba's DNA matched the infamous dress.

So, we're into damage control. Berger is saying nothing and Kerry is in a corner wondering what the hell hit him!!! Hillary is pi***** because it leads back to Bubba and wife and Bubba's in France. Soooooo Funny!!!