Berger was stealing and destroying Able Danger documents. The Millenium Plot documents were part of his cover story.
Stealing and destroying. Maybe stealing and replacing, too. What's in the NA is now suspect, if not worthless.
Exactly. Exactly.
I said at the time that Berger would NOT have undertaken such a breathtakingly rash mission for the Millenium Plot documents. That issue was already known, and the clinton administration had survived it. The notion that a former President's National Security Advisor was stealing and destroying merely embarrassing, generally unflattering documents is ludicrous. Even the documents showing Berger himself vetoed operations to catch Osama 4 times isn't enough explain his actions. That too had already been survived.
Res ipsa loquitor. Whatever Berger was after, I knew it had to be radioactive, specific, and not yet on anyone's radar. Berger knew he would be caught, so the only thing he could do is throw up a smokescreen over what he was really after.
The fact that the democrats and press, in unison, were happy to concede the "fact" that the documents in question concerned the Millenium plot is alarm bell enough. Recall the boatloads of liberal operatives flailing about over whether he secreted them out in his socks or pants, whether these were copies or drafts, the definition of "original," blah blah. But did we hear a peep challenging the documents themselves?
Recall reports that Berger went back and stole the same documents again. Makes no sense, unless he was trying to draw attention to one set of documents, and divert attention from another.