Perjury, altered documents, treason, murder, theft -- no problem to them, it seems.
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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Was Hillary interviewd by the 9/11 commission?
He's still walking the streets?????????????? WHY ISN'T HE IN JAIL? Inadvertent????? HAH!!!!! No one removes classified documents inadvertently. Put him in jail now, and ask questions later.
Who else had missing documents? Someone took some FBI documents home and his house was robbed and boxes were missing?? I can't remember who it was though.
Perjury, altered documents, treason, murder, theft -- no problem to them, it seems.
You're a real masochist. Katie and Plugs aren't going to cover it-- and if they do, they are going to spin for Berger and whack the Bush administration.
I am breaking my HGTV evening watching for this one. I am SO loving this!
Here is another thought I have. Why would Berger do this, at great personal and professional risk?
My answer is that someone MADE him do it. Someone who has dirt on Berger.
This suggests he thought that base was somehow covered. Perhaps a friendly was going to lose the tape, but then someone may have precluded the action.
I don't believe for a moment he didn't premeditatively cover what could only reasonably have been considered the vulnerabilities of such an action.
Some guys who were able to lose the tapes of Vince leaving the White House "have presumably still been able to hold down jobs."
HF
Yeah, and Berger said he believes he threw a few of the classified documents away, of course, he said by mistake. We really have enough sense to know he woudn't have said he threw them away on purpose.....duh? How stupid do we look?????
SCARBOROUGH..................NOW Flight 327
He stole the first copy. Given a second copy....trap was set.
Officials familiar with the investigation said Archives staff specially marked the documents and when the new copy and others disappeared,
Then caught red handed.
"...The Clinton associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity with the Times, said the former president had taken a break from the manuscript of his memoir, due out this summer, to prepare for the session with the help of his former national security advisor, Samuel R Berger, who testified earlier, and with his longtime legal adviser, Bruce Lindsey..."
Really?!
Yup, I'm watching it, and it's riveting, but I want Berger's lying carcass taken apart too.
AirOn Brown-nose made it his second story on his show. You could almost hear the tears of saddness in his voice as he told the story. He he he he he he....TOUCHDOWN PATRIOTS !
Just found a really cool website.
That is the Question of the Century.
During the Clinton years, what did Pantload Berger do and when did he do it?
The stolen documents must have been powerful evidence that put the Pantload at great risk for criminal charges.
Sell your stock in any Hotels in Boston ASAP, they are going to take a beating next week when half of Kerry's advisor's are doing a perp walk :-)
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