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Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry´s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton´s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton´s admirers. “It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger´s serious misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the...

Throughout the Berger affair, we were repeatedly assured that former National Security Advisor Sanyd Berger could not have destroyed any documents that the government did not have copies of. He could not, as a result, have been part of a cover-up of Clinton's disastrous fecklessness towards al Qaeda. It was this assurance that led many to view the episode as criminal buffoonery, rather than serious felonious conduct. The release of the Berger Report by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform changes that understanding, and makes the decision by the Department of Justice to give Berger the slightest of wrist...

More amazing details of former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's theft and deliberate concealment of classified documents emerged last week – just before the Christmas holiday, at a time few Americans were watching the news. In a report by National Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfeld, we learn, more than three years after the crime against the American people and the laws of the land, that Berger hid some of the documents under a construction trailer. We also learn that at first no law enforcement agencies were even notified of suspicions about the crime. We learn that his first "cover story"...

The top-secret, military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger" identified Mohammed Atta, the leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, 13 times before the 2001 attacks, according to new information released Tuesday by U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees. Able Danger has been identified by Weldon and team member Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer as an elite group of approximately two dozen individuals tasked with identifying and targeting the links and relationships of al Qaeda worldwide. On June 27, 2005, Weldon said that Able Danger had offered in the year before the Sept....

Drowned Out by Katrina, Berger Gets Away With It Current Events/Frank Salvato, Managing Editor September 16, 2005 - Now that the vitriolic finger pointing has started to subside and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have admitted that maybe, just maybe, there might be some substance to the assessment that the disaster response from their local and state governments was practically non-existent, we can revisit news that the mainstream media opted to bump from the limelight. It was no surprise that the mainstream media chose to cover the events taking place in the aftermath of...

A Cornell alumnus has recently reappeared on the national stage in a controversy whose repercussions could potentially affect both issues of national security and the upcoming presidential elections. The Associated Press reported on July 19 that Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger '67, former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton and an unofficial advisor to Sen. John F. Kerry's (D-Mass.) campaign, was the focus of a criminal investigation after "removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings." According to the report, Berger's office and home were searched by...

John Kerry Unveils Comprehensive Plan to Fight the War on Terrorism <![if !vml]><![endif]>February 27, 2004 For Immediate Release Los Angeles, CA – In a speech today at the UCLA International Institute, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry offered his comprehensive approach to fighting the global war on terrorism. In the second of a series of speeches on national security, Kerry presented a plan to identify, disrupt, and eliminate terrorist networks using all the resources at our disposal. As CIA Director George Tenet starkly reminded us this week, we are threatened by a far-flung terrorist network that will continue to operate...

Set aside Republican speculation that former Clinton national security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger was trying to hide classified information from the Sept. 11 commission or that he had provided the material to the Kerry campaign. Do likewise with Democratic suspicions that the FBI's investigation of Berger was leaked to distract attention from the commission's report. Those concerns, all unproven, are partisan and secondary. Keep the focus where it belongs. Did Sandy Berger violate the rules regarding the protection of classified information entrusted to him, and if he did, will he be held accountable for his actions?

This is the mess Bubba built. These are the docsThat lay in the mess Bubba built. Berger's the rat, That took the docs,That lay in the mess Bubba built. Uncle Sam is the cop, That chased the rat , that took the docs,That lay in the mess Bubba built. These are the socks that tipped off the cop, That chased the rat , that took the docs,That lay in the mess Bubba built. This the Left Media tried to bury,But Fox exposed the socks, that tipped off the cop, That chased the rat , that took the docs,That lay in...

Poll Question : How many times have you inadvertently, sloppily, absent-mindedly, carelessly, put a Classified document in your SOCKS??A) HuH? B) Say What? C) Once D) Twice E) It's a strange habit of mine. Pay no attention.