Posted on 01/21/2008 10:00:33 AM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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That’s not true. It is impossible to get original documents out of storage at the archives. If he destroyed materials, he had to have done so before they went iinto the archives.
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From the Wall St. Journal:
Another telling revelation concerns Mr. Berger's access to original, uncopied and uninventoried documents from the files of former NSC antiterror official Richard Clarke, among others. At the time Mr. Berger made his misdemeanor plea agreement, we were assured by then-federal prosecutor Noel Hillman that there was no evidence that Mr. Berger destroyed or intended to destroy any original documents. That was, strictly speaking, true. But during three of Mr. Berger's four visits to the Archives in 2002 and 2003, the former National Security Adviser did have access to original documents of which no adequate inventory existed or exists.
This seems relevant, given the concern that Mr. Berger's breaches of national security might have denied evidence to history of the Clinton Administration's approach to al Qaeda and the threat of terrorism. And yet the Justice Department clearly gave the impression that there was no danger that Mr. Berger abridged the historical record. We now know that this was not true. Mr. Berger was in a position to remove documents from Mr. Clarke's files, and thanks to lax security, breaches of protocol and undue deference on the part of Archives staff, we may never know whether Mr. Berger took documents other than the five he's admitted to removing.
This is absolutely impossible. I am familiar with the archives. It is impossible to access uninventoried materials. Impossible.
Berger may have destroyed Clarke’s or someone else’s papers but he had to do so before they were turned over to the archives.
I’m not defending Berger, I’m saying that the suggestion is just not plausible. If he did somehow get secured documents then the problem is Archivist who were in on it and the Bush Admin for not prosecuting.
The 9/11 Commission has claimed that they were denied absolutely no documents and that Berge destroyed no original documents.
Berger did removed top secret copies and allowed them to be exposed to theft and viewing by unauthorized personell. During Wartime this is as close to treason as you get, even if they were not original documents.
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Meantime. . .perhaps a mass mailing to Fox News... O'Reilly; or Hannity might help here; but somehow, I doubt it. This info needs an entire organization behind it. . .insuring 'public disclosure'.
My understanding of this tresonous farce was that ‘they/some’ WERE original documents. Claims ‘otherwise’ I think were just that.
Sandy Berger should be worried.. .very worried. Even IF appointed by Hillary; should she win; just all the easier to erase Clinton,Inc.'s past.
However, once they are firmly entrenched we know that heads will surely roll.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand why Berger should be worried? BTW, “Dereliction of Duty” by Robert “Buzz” Patterson is now out in paperback. It’s great fun to go down to the liberal/lefty bookstore and order a copy. Not to mention that it is a great read.
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