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Clinton Library Won't Release Berger Documents
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Posted on 05/05/2008 4:06:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Clinton Library Won't Release Berger Documents By Fred Lucas CNSNews.com Staff Writer May 05, 2008

(CNSNews.com) - The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library will not make available to the public the documents that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger illegally took from the National Archives in 2003.

A letter from the library said the total 502 pages from the Millennium Alert After Action Review (MAAR) are "restricted in their entirety," under federal law and that the documents are "classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy."

Further, the library stated the documents contain "confidential communications requesting or submitting advice between the president and his advisors, or between such advisors."

The library's letter was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Cybercast News Service . The library has responded to several other requests, but in those cases it was to inform CNSNews.com that library staff was processing the request.

Berger, who was national security advisor for President Clinton from 1997 to 2001, took five different copies of pages from the classified MAAR out of the archives by stuffing them in his suit and exiting the archives building. Berger did that at a time (September-October 2003) when the 9/11 Commission was beginning to investigate both the Clinton and Bush administrations' handling of the terror threat in the led up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The Millennium Alert After Action Review was reportedly a 1999 assessment of how the nation was handling terrorist threats. The assessment was distributed to only 15 people in the Clinton administration and contained 29 recommendations, according to published reports.

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To: sr4402

Turns out he didn’t risk much at all. He’s still free.


41 posted on 05/05/2008 7:11:01 AM PDT by mrsmel (I have principles too, McCain! And I'm a maverick against your candidacy!)
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To: ovrtaxt

The Clinton WH was the biggest security leak that this nation has ever known, allowing access to our most top secret documents to the Chicoms in exchange for campaign contributions. Hillary or Obama would be no different.


42 posted on 05/05/2008 7:19:02 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Bill knows that picking at a Berger... will only cause embarrassment and call attention to his long fingers!
43 posted on 05/05/2008 7:33:00 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Sub-Driver
"classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy."

And I certainly hope you guys have a vault approved by the FBI/DOD for storing classified materials.

And let's not forget access -- anyone with access to this information or even the room where the vault is located must have a security clearance from the FBI/DOE...

44 posted on 05/05/2008 7:37:16 AM PDT by John123 (Fluoride is NOT a neuro-toxin. It is a cavity fighter in spite of NO PEER Reviewed PROOF!)
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To: ovrtaxt
Is the FBI noticing this?

They are too busy indoctrinating agents in Islam and the homosexual lifestyle.

45 posted on 05/05/2008 7:55:38 AM PDT by montag813
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To: ovrtaxt
Is a presidentisl library even allowed to hold classified docs? If so, I’m very surprised. Seems like a security risk.

WHAT security risk? Even when such classified documents were in the hands of the National Archives, the Burglar stole some and destroyed them off site.

And there was little done about it.

Our government has a shadow government of Clintonistas in place. They are permitted to do as they will.

Stolen FBI files? No biggie.

46 posted on 05/05/2008 9:15:49 AM PDT by weegee (Roger Waters has turned his concerts into the tyrannical political rallies he once warned of....)
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To: Sub-Driver

Every one of these capers the Clintons have engaged in over their miserable public careers so easily outdistance anything the Watergate Frat boys ever dreamed up.

And those Watergate dirty tricks brought down a president and resulted in many going to jail.

But the Clintons will be back in the WH soon—due in no small part to Operation Chaos and the anti-Obama types who have propped up the Zombie Witch... just as they knew would happen.


47 posted on 05/05/2008 9:24:44 AM PDT by Husker8877
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To: Reaganesque

I don’t think the Clintons are truly in charge of it:


4/30/2008 Archives Technician
The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum is seeking an Archives Technician to work at 2313 Red River Street, Austin, TX 78705-5702. For more information on the Presidential Libraries ...[more]

Vacancy Ann.#: N 08-151
Who May Apply: Public
Pay Plan: GS-1421-06
Appointment Term: Permanent
Job Status: Full-Time
Opening Date: 4/16/2008
Salary: From 33,135.00 to 43,076.00 USD per year

National Archives And Records Administration US-TX-Austin 33,135.00+


So far as I know, Presidential Libraries are staffed by Federal employees.


48 posted on 05/05/2008 12:08:42 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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