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Published July 22, 2004 Guards left Berger alone, sources say Ex-security adviser reportedly told monitors to violate rules as he took breaks, took files. By James Gordon Meek New York Daily News Washington — Former national security adviser Sandy Berger repeatedly persuaded monitors assigned to watch him review top-secret documents to break the rules and leave him alone, sources said Wednesday. Berger, accused of smuggling some of the secret files out of the National Archives, got the monitors out of the high-security room by telling them he had to make sensitive phone calls. Guards were convinced to violate their own...

Archives Employees Suspicious of Berger... devised a coding system and marked the documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, and watched him carefully... employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the millennium memo had disappeared from the files after Berger viewed them, WASH POST set to report, say sources... Developing...

NEWS ITEM: The George Bush re-election campaign was hit by a tsunami yesterday when it was discovered that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice had made multiple trips the the National Archives and stolen documents prior to her testimony at the 9-11 Commission hearings. It has been learned that on at least five occasions, Ms. Rice had stuffed documents in her bra and pantyhose and sneaked them out of the building. Some of the documents have not been recovered. The reactions from around the country were swift. Here are some of them. Katie Couric: She is responsible for everything that has...

Scandal: Remember Sandy Berger? He was Bill Clinton's national security adviser. Until Tuesday, he was a top adviser to John Kerry. Now, he's in big trouble.The former Clinton White House official is being investigated for taking notes and classified documents from the National Archives as he prepared for the 9-11 hearings.Berger claims he accidentally took the documents, some of which he later threw out. He claims further he wasn't trying to hide anything from the 9-11 commission and would cooperate with any investigation. He blamed it all on "sloppiness."Sorry, but Berger's bizarre behavior raises many questions. Included among those are...

Sandy Berger is being investigated for absconding with classified documents from the National Archives. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,126249,00.html

What it’s like to listen to the former president all day, every day by Steve Lowery If you’ve become tired of the release of Nixon tapes in which the former president disparages races, religions and former presidents, you can blame and sympathize with Karl Weissenbach. Since 1991, Weissenbach has worked with the National Archives’ Nixon presidential materials staff in College Park, Maryland, the last six years as director. Given the fascination with the last 240-hour batch Weissenbach’s crew put out, we thought we’d ask him what it’s like to have what we regard as the most exciting job in...

WASHINGTON -- Ever wonder what's in the Pentagon's old war plans? Why, for instance, "Project Cornflakes" was a go in World War II, but Cold War-era plans dubbed "Dropshot," "Broiler," "Sizzle," "Trojan" and "Shakedown" stayed on the drawing board? An upcoming "Top Secret" exhibit at the National Archives building, which houses the revered copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, may answer some questions. Using a new interactive computer program, visitors will be able to inspect spy documents and war plans once limited to officials with special security clearances. While the exhibit itself won't open until next year,...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Monday, December 1, is the final day of voting in the national civics initiative sponsored by the National Archives, in partnership with National History Day and U.S. News & World Report. You don't have to be 18 to have your vote count in The People's Vote: 100 Documents That Shaped America. The program encourages Americans of all ages and educational backgrounds to vote for 10 documents from the list of 100 milestones chosen by historians and the National Archives. At a special ceremony on September 17, 2003, with President George W. Bush, the Archivist...

National Archives Press Conference to Announce New Discovery 7/7/03 10:28:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: National Archives Public Affairs Staff, 301-837-1700 News Advisory: WHO: Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin Truman Library Staff Archivist Ray Geselbracht WHAT: A press conference to announce and unveil a new discovery at the Truman Library. Archivist John Carlin has hailed this discovery as, "The most significant find related to President Truman in twenty years." The press will have the opportunity to film/photograph the discovery after the remarks and unveiling. The Truman Library is one of ten Presidential Libraries...

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently declassified its fifth report to Congress on "inadvertent" disclosures of classified nuclear-weapons information. For the last three years, classification experts have been scouring millions of pages of supposedly declassified government documents dumped into the public domain under the Clinton administration's misguided openness policy. They have uncovered a gold mine of nuclear-warhead secrets that, according to a DOE assessment, "would aid an adversary in obtaining a weapon of mass destruction." In 1993, citing the end of the Cold War and the "rapidly changing world situation," President Bill Clinton proposed significant changes in security-classification policies...