Posted on 12/21/2006 12:57:11 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON — President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday.
The report was issued more than a year after Sandy Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removing the documents.
Berger took the documents in the fall of 2003 while working to prepare himself and Clinton administration witnesses for testimony to the Sept. 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration's representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials.
Berger's lawyer, Lanny Breuer, said in a statement that the contents of all the documents exist today and were made available to the commission.
But Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said he's not convinced that the Archives can account for all the documents taken by Berger. Davis said working papers of National Security Council staff members are not inventoried by the Archives.
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What criminal sentence? The sob received a slap on the hand but should have gone to prison for life
Still AP. Who can believe them? /sarcasm
...and to protect the clinton legacy
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Why isn't this slime in prison. If you or I did this, we'd be in the slammer for sure.
He stole the documents to keep the 9/11 commission from seeing the information damaging to the Clinton administration, pure and simple. He is a traitor. For this, he received the terrible punishment of not being able to have his security clearance back for three years, coincidentally, just in time for the next Democratic Presidential Administration's rule of terror.
I am incensed and highly disappointed in what I thought President Bush's administration was, and, now, has turned out not to be. Whatever W's purpose was for letting this scum go, it is a slap in the face to all of us.
AND GOT AWAY WITH IT! ! ! !
Too bad the Inspector General will probably ignore this facet of the alleged 'investigation' into Sandy Burglar's actions.Too bad.
If this were a Republican, this would be front-page news. We know Berger will be let off. It's sad how we've resigned ourselves to the fact that some people are above the law. And there's nothing we can do about it.
Glenn Beck had a segment last night which was basically, whatever happened to the Foley investigation, the immigration issue, etc. The point being that the election of November 7 happened and all the stuff that had the msm's panties in a twist is no longer important. This information, issued a couple of days before Christmas and a couple of months after the election is of no import to anyone except those of us who give a damn about the future of our country.....and no one else is listening.
The Clinton fix was in. Berger as you say should have gone to jail for life.
Can anyone, ANYONE, tell me what the clintons have on the bush's? I'm open to speculation, hearsay, conspiracy, or just plain facts. There must be a reason bush has not pursued the clinton crimes, a reason beyond "let's just all get along."
The Klintoons dont need anything against Bush the media and the rest of the Democrates will supply whatever they can make up.
"Can anyone, ANYONE, tell me what the clintons have on the bush's?"
My speculation is that Bush is more concerned about national security than he is about getting the Clintonoids - most likely because Sandy Burglar proabably threatened to reveal national secrets that Bush doesn't want out there.
We'll find out soon enough if the demoncrats have anything on Bush now that they run the investigative committees. Again, my speculation is that if they don't impeach it is because they don't have anything on Bush (most likely the votes to impeach aren't there either) which would tend to validate my national security supposition.
First, it is OUTRAGEOUS and an absolute slap in our faces that Berger has gotten away with this. It is just another chip away at the foundation on this country and our culture. We can bemoan the fact that we have crime and corruption and the message is crime does pay, so in a way you can't blame people for going that route. We have become the peons and we are held to a higher standard than the elitist in goverment.
As far as the Bushes and Clintons, I believe all people at that level of goverment are in collusion. They have done alot of shady things to get where they are. Those suspense novels that describe all of the secrative backdoor dealings, and the power hungry sociopaths, are probably more fact than fiction.
Was this a felony or misdeeanor?
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