It's hard to say whether special intelligence or compartmented intelligence is "microfilmed".
From my experience as a special security officer, I'd say probably not.
These documents are so sensitive that they are on registers and must be signed out by people who have proper, verified clearance and NEED TO KNOW. They are accounted for- page by page, copy by copy.
And when they are destroyed, the destruction must be witnessed and both witnesses must sign.
The classification level assigned is based on an assessment that compromise of the information would cause, at a minimum, grave damage to US national security.
Berger was probably granted an interim clearance to access this information solely to prepare for his 911 testimony.
His abuse of PRIVILEGE- both that of serving in government and that of having access to our top national security information- has been abused to the point it makes me sick to my stomach. I haven't felt this way for a long time- since Clinton left office.
What I want to know - and what is probably secure information and I will not find out - is what the procedure is at that secure room site. Berger claims that he inadvertently took some stuff in the 'leather portfolio' he carried. Is that the lost articles? I thought noone could take articles out AT ALL? I thought you could only remove handwritten notes. IS the REASON berger is stuffing stuff down his trowsers because he KNOWs his leather portfolio is going to be checked [because portfolios/breifcases are inspected by default for anyone leaving the secure area ] by the fed agents at the door and they would see the docs or the numbers on the docs that would have told them - that these docs - these non-handwritten notes cannot leave the area . And knowing this ... Berger stuffs the papers in his croutch which will NOT be inspected and he has too high a security level to worry about a random pat-down search when leaving the area like he was some congressman's secretary? I once worked for a federal security agency and we all had to read the regs continually and be up on the regs... it was a matter of pride to know the regs better than the next guy and you were considered to be very "up" on security if you could confidently solve a security question like who had access or what kind of access.
Robert