Posted on 07/21/2004 9:25:10 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.
What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.
After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case.
The notion of one of Washington's most respected foreign policy figures being subjected to treatment that had at least a faint odor of a sting operation is a strange one. But the peculiarities -- and conflicting versions of events and possible motives -- were just then beginning in a case that this week bucked Berger out of an esteemed position as a leader of the Democratic government-in-waiting that had assembled around presidential nominee John F. Kerry.
As his attorneys tell it, Berger had no idea in October that documents were missing from the Archives, or that archivists suspected him in the disappearance. It was not until two days later, on Saturday, Oct. 4, that he was contacted by Archives employees who said that they were concerned about missing files, from his September and October visits. This call -- in Berger's version of the chronology, which is disputed in essential respects by a government official with knowledge of the investigation -- was made with a tone of concern, but not accusation.
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The 9/11 Committee is so incompetent and full of grandstanders posing for the cameras that they wouldn't even recognize important pieces of data or drafts went missing. I doubt that Bob Kerrey read thru 50 pages of all the documents available. Jamie Gorelick probably purged her memos right before their eyes and they didn't take notice. Bunch of dupes.
It's on Page A06.
I guess Berger needs to know what the meaning of 'honest' and 'missing' is.
Those are the papers that he returned that were NOT the ones that the NARA people thought were missing.
And if they came out and got them back, the ONLY reason that Berger would hire a lawyer is because he KNEW that those papers were not the ones they were looking for!
berger planted false documents.
Bill Clinton says he's known about this for months. Had a good laugh about it, too. Now I'm really going to bed.
Are you kidding?
I'm going to keep an eye out for her stories.
The DUmmies are dismissing the story because of the WP author. lol
Or rather he wanted to make it big with the Kerry campaign, and if they had known that he was under investigation by the DOJ they would have shunned him like a leper.
"We have officially exceeded Watergate proportions with this story."
LOL
Richard Ben-Veniste and Hillry Clinton "What did they know and when did they know it"?
But it was an accident, you know? He accidently kept taking the same report over and over.
Traitors is exactly what they are.
Shameless.
Archives Staff Was Suspicious of Berger
By John F. Harris and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 22, 2004; Page A06
Do you believe me yet ?
Maybe if Couric and Rather mention sloppy enough times we'll forget about it and move on.
In or on... I am thinking that someone's handwritten scrawl on one of the drafts might be very very worrisome to a certain party or parties right now...
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