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Posted on 07/20/2004 8:09:33 AM PDT by hope
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:02 a.m. EDT WSJ: Berger Took Secret 9/11 Docs on Five Occasions Kerry campaign advisor Sandy Berger removed secret terrorism documents from a 9/11 Commission reading room on no fewer than five occasions, his lawyer Lanny Breuer admitted late Monday night. Breuer told the Wall Street Journal that his client, who served previously as the Clinton administration's National Security Advisor, inadvertently removed several copies of an after-action report on the foiled 1999 Millennium bomb plot during two separate visits to the top secret facility.
Breuer said also that Berger had deliberately removed handwritten notes that he had taken during three additional visits to the Archives last fall to review classified documents. Mr. Breuer said removing those notes was a violation of National Archives policy, and that Mr. Berger regretted the action. "He knew it was a technical violation, and he admits that it was an error in judgment." But according to New York civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby, Berger's decision to remove his notes wasn't just a "technical violation." "You're not permitted to remove anything from that room - period," he said Tuesday morning. "And that means even your notes. If you're taking notes about classified information, those notes are now classified. They're placed in a secure area. You can have access to them only while being viewed by a security officer. Nothing gets removed." Even if Berger had only removed his personal notes on classified material, it would still be a crime, said Kuby, who learned about classified reading room procedures during his own involvement in the trial of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.
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Chronic accidental inadvertance. Big problem...
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unbelievable - Tom Harkin is on the floor of the Senate right now spewing lies about the Bush Admin., pitching the tale of Joe Wilson, without any apparent recognition of how his tale has been blown out of credibility and now, here, another top Clinton / Kerry advisor appears guilty of lying, actually stealing damning documents from the National Archives. Now WHO KNEW and WHO LIED? Not Bush.
I'm way behind on this story.
tell me, what did he do with these documents? I know its illegal to remove them, but has there been any allegations regarding what he did with the material? whether he allowed anyone else to see them once they were un-secured by his actions?
Gergen says it's normal to put classified documents in your socks if your a hero.
Why hasn't Berger been indicted?
You know you're really screwed when Kuby is not helping your "civil rights"
This is nothing more than the typical Democratic disregard for truth and the rule of law.
HOLY CRAP.......this just gets better and better!
What did Clinton & Berger know and when did they know it?
That is the question.
It was an accident!
And the Press will buy it hook, line and sinker.
FGS, this is an outrage!
In his socks? And David Gergen goes on the Today Show and says the timing of the leak smells?
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I don't think everything has been revealed yet. He supposedly lost them.
don't forget that Clinton brought Berger & Bruce Lindsey along with him when he testified before the 9/11 commission - the media make a big thing about Bush + Cheney testifying together but that little tidbit of info seemed to have escaped their scrutiny. Now we know why Clinton brought Berger - he needed his assurance and counsel as to which documents Berger successfully stole & took to his home to be shredded before they testified.
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happy anniversary!
5 different times he took documents, he is sloppy often :-)
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He probablyu removed them because they were damaging to the CLinton Administration, regarding how ill-prepared they were to deal with terrorism and how they knew they should have tried to root out Al-Qaeda here in the US and failed to act.
He did it For the Children.
Has anyone been over to the DUh to see what the idiots are saying about this yet. I would check it out myself but I just got out of the shower.
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Re: National security theft and espionage - no big deal when perps are democrat.
"Fat Sandy the Burglar" is gonna look sweet in an orange jump suit...LMAO
Re#4 It used to be amazing, now it's SOP--diversion and soundbites for the presstitutes. Methinks it will be for naught....
What or whom is Berger going to give up to avoid criminal charges?
Where's the LSM on this?
Of course, the Press will focus on the "leak" and ignore the crime...
"Who leaked this! Leaking this was the crime! It was political!"
The Hill 3/17/99 Dick Morris "…Sandy Berger is about as qualified to be White House national security advisor as I am. He’s a political operative who had virtually no foreign policy experience before he became Tony Lake’s deputy. He was put into the National Security Council (NSC) under Lake so that Tony, who didn’t have a clue about politics, wouldn’t get cut apart in the congressional swamp. His job was to know politics. Tony’s was to know foreign policy…. When Lake and Christopher left, Berger got the top NSC job, the first professional politician ever to be named national security advisor. It was a major mistake….Clinton’s choice of Berger was, however, just right for his concept of foreign policy, that it is subordinate to domestic political and economic considerations. Where the president can intervene abroad and do well at home with domestic constituencies — as in Israel, Ireland and Haiti — foreign policy is important. But where global strategy is concerned, the prime motive is economic — to create jobs in America — and not diplomatic, military or strategic. He runs foreign policy like a governor promoting his state…"
Seems he was there to help the Clinton team decide what would be turned over to the commission. I guess there were some items (hand written notes) that he thought should not see the light of day.
Happy anniversary HOWLIN : )
This makes you wonder what the Clintons have on their appointments to make them so loyal as to engage in a coverup....
LOL. Ain't that the truth...
There is just no explanation of his actions other than something illegal!
Oh, never mind it's about one of theirs.
This whole thing was just an oversight. Just last week I was in my attorneys office and when he stepped out some papers beloging to my litigant accidentally slipped into my pants. They were loose fitting Dockers, could've happened to anyone. Didn't realize it until I got home. So I read and photocopy them bfore I returned them, in case I lost them on the way back to his office.
Serial Berger Burglar
Re#39 LOL. Me too. It was a rack of Rolex watches from the jeweler's in my pants and socks. I'm glad they noticed them missing or I would have mistakenly, accidently, inadvertently, misplaced them on my messy desk or disposed of them....
Berger will be sacrificed if this gets to close to Clinton.
Getting Berger to steal and "lose" those orinigals is just like in the Godfather when he calls in his markers on the undertaker
An article last night said he admits to "accidentally discarding" some of the documents (interpret: willfully destroyed).
Does this make him "Sandy Berglar"?
(Am I jaded or what?)
Thank you for posting this. This needs to be spread far and wide. Wonder if the Hill will reprint this?
Would you repost as a stand alone post. I am sure I am not the only one who has forgotten this, and the threads are getting very, very long and hard to get through.
Thanks.
I'm also interested about the company he started after he left the Clinton gang...
It's all a lie by the BushCo Big Oil/Halliburton/VRWC/Conservative Media/Military-Industrial Complex attack machine!! Stuffing those classified documents in his socks was completely innocent and inadvertent! MorOn.org will be filing a hate-crimes suit against anyone who believes it!!
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