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"Each document was unique, and their destruction by Mr. Scissors means that we will never know what some did with Clarke's information. All we know is that it must have reflected badly on Berger, Clinton, or both. Otherwise, why would Berger destroy them?"

Exactly - this strikes me as the only explanation that could account for why Sandy Burglar was willing to commit crimes and risk serious jail time. Mere 'carelessness' is no explanation at all. fwiw, I have family members who hold or have held very high security clearances, including one (now retired) who worked under one of the top few military officials in the country (pre-Clinton years). They all find the explanations of Burglar and Clinton of how this all transpired to be so preposterous that they laughed uncontrollably (and then were extremely angry) when the Burglar-Clinton explanations first became public. They tell me that even far less sensitive documents are handled with so much more care (except by Clintonistas, evidently), that even misplacing one WITHIN a secure office (never mind removing it) can be a career-ending move. No, whatever Sandy Burglar was up to, he was desperate to make sure certain documents, probably including hand-written comments by top Clintonistas, never made it to the 9/11 O-mission. Even if such documents are termed 'copies' and there is still an 'original' somewhere in the NA, it looks like Burglar made sure that hand-written notes were deep-sixed.... and the 1998 after-action report on the cruise missile attacks never made it to the 9/11 O-mission in any form.

"Even if such documents are termed 'copies' and there is still an 'original' somewhere in the NA, it looks like Burglar made sure that hand-written notes were deep-sixed....

Agree with all you wrote. I will even goes as far as saying with limited verbosity, if he was able to carefully "white out", or have someone carefully doctor the copy, then return it, where it would go into a file cabinet for instance, future readers may not know exactly what handwritten notes where cleanly whited out. Only the originals (in the form of a file on a hard disk) would contain the original Berger notes. So if things continued to be mostly covered up, e.g. no future investigations being brought forth, or the bad news Weldon is breaking. Then Berger may have felt his efforts where worth while. His attached notes would never be revealed. I can see what his motive may have been, and clearly it would work if no one was made the wiser. A casual viewer, reporter whomever, obtaining and reading said document would never be the wiser. So this could easily explain why he chanced the NA escapades. Obviously the original electronic form must contain his "handwriten" notes, so it looks like his ass is grassed once they are now retreived. Unless his inside people got access to the computer(s) systems with proper administrative permissions to wipe out given files. Then perhaps some documents could be really gone for ever if he destroyed the copy, and his inside people deleted the file from some directory on a computer system. Perhaps we shall never know the full extent of what he was able to get away with.