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To: teddyballgame
We have known what Berger stole from the Archives for over 2 years. From my files:

We already know exactly what Berglar took and why...pay close attention to the last para on the Clarke/Kerrick memo. From Ashcroft's testimony:

The NSC's Millennium After Action Review declares that the United States barely missed major terrorist attacks in 1999 — with luck playing a major role. Among the many vulnerabilities in homeland defenses identified, the Justice Department's surveillance and FISA operations were specifically criticized for their glaring weaknesses. It is clear from the review that actions taken in the Millennium Period should not be the operating model for the U.S. government.

In March 2000, the review warns the prior Administration of a substantial al Qaeda network and affiliated foreign terrorist presence within the U.S., capable of supporting additional terrorist attacks here. [My note: AD info?]

Furthermore, fully seventeen months before the September 11 attacks, the review recommends disrupting the al Qaeda network and terrorist presence here using immigration violations, minor criminal infractions, and tougher visa and border controls.

Post #745

It falls directly into the AD timeline. In that same post, I note that what Sandy Berger stole was the versions of the after action report:

The missing copies, according to Breuer and their author, Richard A. Clarke, the counterterrorism chief in the Clinton administration and early in President Bush's administration, were versions of after-action reports recommending changes following threats of terrorism as 1999 turned to 2000. Clarke said he prepared about two dozen ideas for countering terrorist threats. The recommendations were circulated among Cabinet agencies, and various versions of the memo contained additions and refinements, Clarke said last night.

Therefore, they were never provided to the Commission, as evidenced by the Commission Report footnotes (#769):

46. NSC email, Clarke to Kerrick,“Timeline,”Aug. 19, 1998; Samuel Berger interview (Jan. 14, 2004). We did not find documentation on the after-action review mentioned by Berger. On Vice Chairman Joseph Ralston’s mission in Pakistan, see William Cohen interview (Feb. 5, 2004). For speculation on tipping off the Taliban, see, e.g., Richard Clarke interview (Dec. 18, 2003).

And to what does footnote (46) refer? On p. 117, Chapter 4, we find this:

Later on August 20, Navy vessels in the Arabian Sea fired their cruise missiles. Though most of them hit their intended targets, neither Bin Ladin nor any other terrorist leader was killed. Berger told us that an after-action review by Director Tenet concluded that the strikes had killed 20–30 people in the camps but probably missed Bin Ladin by a few hours. Since the missiles headed for Afghanistan had had to cross Pakistan, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was sent to meet with Pakistan’s army chief of staff to assure him the missiles were not coming from India. Officials in Washington speculated that one or another Pakistani official might have sent a warning to the Taliban or Bin Ladin. (46)
How about that? How many times have we heard Clinton say that he missed Bin Ladin by just a few hours? Yet the after-action report is missing, so the Commission relied on Sandy Berger's testimony.

Then the Clarke/Kerrick memo peaked my interest and I found this (#784):

Clarke was nervous about such a mission because he continued to fear that Bin Ladin might leave for someplace less accessible. He wrote Deputy National Security Advisor Donald Kerrick that one reliable source reported Bin Ladin's having met with Iraqi officials, who "may have offered him asylum." Other intelligence sources said that some Taliban leaders, though not Mullah Omar, had urged Bin Ladin to go to Iraq. If Bin Ladin actually moved to Iraq, wrote Clarke, his network would be at Saddam Hussein's service, and it would be "virtually impossible" to find him. Better to get Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, Clarke declared.


19 posted on 09/26/2006 6:26:15 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter

So there was no connection between Saddam and Usama, right. If I was thinking of moving in with my daughter, I'd probably tell her first.


28 posted on 09/26/2006 6:35:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: ravingnutter

Thanks for that poignant reminder. I still find it amazing that the MSM/DBM have all but ignored this story & still quote Sandy Berger as if his opinion is relevant about anything.


31 posted on 09/26/2006 6:36:16 AM PDT by demkicker (democrats, terrorists, Powell, McCain, Graham & Collins are intimate bedfellows)
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To: ravingnutter

Thanks for the detailed response. I thought the papers had something to do with the terror plot for Millenium project. I hadn't realized that the papers focused that much on the glaring defficiencies of the Clinton Admin.

Has Dick Clark ever gone on record about Berger's stolen documents?


38 posted on 09/26/2006 6:42:26 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: ravingnutter
Great post. Wonder was it only Berger that Clinton got his intel briefings from or was Hillry the go to office for all the data dump.

There were parts of what Clinton said that sounded 'rehearsed', Clinton did speak with confidence of exact events, kinda like he did not know details.
47 posted on 09/26/2006 6:51:44 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: ravingnutter

bookmark bump


56 posted on 09/26/2006 6:59:40 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ravingnutter

The best rundown of what was in Sandy Burglar's pantz that I've seen. Many thanks for posting that.


117 posted on 09/26/2006 8:58:01 AM PDT by Fudd Fan (Some pray for peace; I pray for the VICTORY that will ensure it.)
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To: ravingnutter

that still doesn't tell us what the margin notes on the documents actually said.


129 posted on 09/26/2006 11:49:15 AM PDT by oceanview
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