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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...and I tried to eat all the incriminating stuff. ;-)
Slick Willy told Berger what to look for and remove, I would guarantee it
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He is on with John Batchalor every night. I think he comes on at 10:00 PM (EST)
I thought So
Now let's connect the dots folks ...
Secretary of Defense Cohen, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Albright, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, holding room of the Ronald Reagan Building, April 25, 1999
"We were all making comments we shouldn't have about how the meeting was getting very boring. So finally we decided we had to make like the monkey. Cohen started this 'hear no evil,' and then I was next so I spoke no evil, then Madeleine saw no evil, so Sandy Berger said, 'I'm evil.'" - Bill Clinton
Liz....if Berger was tasked to review the documents by Clinton ..... then he must have spotted something and knew the committee couldn't see it.....amazing
Is that the trip where Clinton almost got trampled to death? That was a great video. Wish I could find it somewhere. It would fit right in along side the Ron Brown funeral video.....
Hannity has just announced this and is asking Congressmen Hoekstra (R) about it. Hoekstra is being very gracious saying we must give Berger "the benefit of the doubt."
I'm in AZ and H&C is on right now on FNC going over this story. Should be interesting to hear the screams from Combs.
There is your key word right there.
Here's a partial list of "suspicious" deaths linked to Klintoon:
http://cbn2.tripod.com/d-link.html
I see a strategy here. Lie and steal to get elected.
OK this goes in the pic of fame!
Sounds like what they say when they got'em by the short ones.
The 9-11 report comes out on Thur...........
and now......
THERE MAY BE SOME INFORMATION CONSERNING A TERRORIST ATTACK ON U.S. SOILD THAT THE 9-11 COMMISSION HAS NOT SEEN?????
WOULD THIS HAVE CHANGED ANY PART OF THIS REPORT???
Sunday , April 2, 2000 ; A01
Richard Clarke witnessed the dawn of the millennium in a top-secret government communications vault, monitoring intelligence traffic for any sign of activity by Islamic terrorist groups loyal to Osama bin Laden. It was not until midnight in California--3 a.m. Washington time--that the Clinton administration's counterterrorism chief finally permitted himself a celebratory sip of champagne.
Four weeks before, Clarke had sketched out a plan on the whiteboard in his office at the National Security Council for neutralizing the latest threat from the Afghanistan-based Saudi exile. Approved by President Clinton and his top foreign policy advisers, Clarke's plan became the basis of administration efforts to prevent bin Laden supporters from ringing in the New Year with what officials believed could be dozens, perhaps hundreds, of American deaths in a series of simultaneous attacks from the Middle East to the West Coast.
On the door outside Clarke's third-floor office, someone has pinned a newspaper picture of four men dressed in chemical suits and gas masks tramping across a desolate landscape. The leader of the men is labeled "Clarke." A headline above the photograph reads: "Defenders of the Free World."
During the millennium alert, the CSG was in almost daily session, coordinating intelligence information and getting constant updates on the hunt for suspected terrorists, both in America and abroad. "At the end of the day, somebody had to pull it all together," says Lisa Gordon-Haggerty, Clarke's director for chemical and biological terrorism, "and that person was Dick Clarke."
As the millennium countdown continued, the Clarke team moved its operations to the Y2K Center at 1800 G St. NW, where they set up a secure communications facility. Most of the team was dressed informally, but Clarke wore a tuxedo. Shortly after midnight, he received a congratulatory phone call from Sandy Berger, who was at the Lincoln Memorial with Clinton. "It's still too early to celebrate," Clarke told Berger, referring to fears that the terrorist cell linked to an Algerian arrested near Seattle in mid-December, Ahmed Ressam, might still be planning an attack on the West Coast.
It was too early to celebrate in a larger sense as well. "It's not enough to be in a cat-and-mouse game, warning about his plots," Clarke says, referring to bin Laden. "If we keep that up, we will someday fail. We need to seriously think about doing more. Our goal should be to so erode his network of organizations that they no longer pose a serious threat."
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:scDZAlk8ro8J:www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/terclrk.htm+millennium+terror+threats&hl=en
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