Posted on 01/09/2007 1:55:36 PM PST by Risha
Edited on 01/09/2007 2:23:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Did the 9/11 Commission receive all the documents it requested?
Davis Releases Berger Report January 9, 2007
By David Marin (202)225-5074
Washington, D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Tom Davis (R-VA) released the following statement today on a committee report that sheds important new light on Sandy Berger’s theft of classified documents from the National Archives. The report makes it clear that the full extent of Mr. Berger’s document removal can never be known, and consequently the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 Commission that it received all responsive documents to which Mr. Berger had access.
“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience.
“The 9/11 Commission relied on incomplete and misleading information regarding its access to documents Mr. Berger reviewed. No one ever told the Commission that Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection.
“We now know that Mr. Berger left stolen highly classified documents at a construction site to avoid detection. We know that Mr. Berger insisted on privacy at times to allow him to conceal documents that he stole. One witness with a very high security clearance believed he saw Berger concealing documents in his socks.
“Mr. Berger’s review of documents did not conform to the usual requirements for reviewing classified documents in a secure facility and under strict supervision. The Archives staff’s failure to contact law enforcement immediately and their contacts with Mr. Berger about the missing documents compromised the law enforcement effort.
“The compromised law enforcement effort contributes to reduced confidence that the 9/11 Commission received all the documents it requested. The execution of a search warrant before Mr. Berger knew there was an investigation would have either located additional documents or enhanced confidence that he stole no others than those he admitted to taking.
“The public statements of the former chief of the public integrity section, Noel Hillman, were incomplete and misleading. Because Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection, we do not know if anything ‘was lost to the public or the process.’
“The Justice Department’s assertion that Mr. Berger’s statements are credible after being caught is misplaced. One wouldn’t rely on the fox to be truthful after being nabbed in the hen house. But the Justice Department apparently did.”
When I think of the insertion of Sandy Burglar, Jamie Gorelick, and Richard Ben-Veniste, 3 of the most loathsome Clintonista lackeys, into the heart of the 9/11 Commission process, I get physically ill. How can anyone regard the 9/11 Omission-Commission's work as adequate when they had Sandy Burglar destroying documents and Gorelicker/Ben-Veniste exercising a great deal of control over the comission's proceedings....
Uh, the President is the Chiel Law enforcement officer of the land, go figure.
Attempting to rewrite history bump and bookmark...
Is it possible all the conspiracy theories could have a bit of truth to them, but the truth is with the Clinton administration?
What would the Clinton administration have gained by 9/11? Was the 'event' planned, but happened too late? If nothing, then what are they hiding?
And, why is Tom Davis making this statement now?
..."This lying scumbag charlatan should be hung, and the fools (and worse) at DOJ, the WH, the MSM, Congress, and the 9/11 Omission-Commission are all naive imbeciles at best, and treasonous lying frauds in the case of the Clintonistas, etc."
Good and important rant that needs to be stated again.
He's a slam dunk to get a national security job in the Hillary Administration.
What sort of control does Clinton have over these people? I can't believe it's the legendary "FBI files." It's probably something more sinister. But it amazes me how Bill has kept together his crime syndicate well after he's gone from office. It's uncanny, and it's a bit creepy.
I agree. Essentially, why get upset that the Clintons do these kind of things when it was the Bush Justice Dept. that went limp.
no, what the after action report would show - is neglect, not a conspiracy. like everything else about the clinton administration - neglect and inaction - no sense of stewardship for this nation's security.
Elevation to "Demigod" in the leftists' pantheon.
Good ole Justice Department. Only goes hogwild after conservatives.
Noel Hillman, the prosecutor that let Sandy Bergman off with a mild sentence, is chief of the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section. That's the group that goes after public corruption including, apparently, campaign finance.
Hillman claims to believe that there was no unique information destroyed, but he isn't very convincing. He says the documents were "printed from a hard drive" but he doesn't say when. If they were printed six years ago, then it is plausible that there were unique hand-written notes on the copies that were destroyed. Hillman says he personally read the documents and that he can testify that there were no hand-written notes. But how could he read documents that have been destroyed? Furthermore, people who work at the archives say there where hand-written notes on some of them.
In addition, no one required Sandy Berger to explain himself. He wasn't required to say under oath why he destroyed the documents, and apparently also wasn't required to say that the documents were all exact copies with no hand-written notes.
Noel Hillman is not only the prosecutor, he is also the chief of the Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section. He has made speeches about the dangers of political corruption and the importance of tough penalties to weed it out. Yet here he is, giving a slap on the wrist to one very bad-smelling bit of political activity. Even if Sandy Berger's entire story is true, this sentence makes it look like high-level officials can get away with murder. Is that good Public Integrity enforcement?
Noel Hillman was not only handling the Berger case, he is also handling the federal investigation into Hillary's fund-raising? Isn't that interesting?
http://tinyurl.com/y75rmm
Noel Hillman, the Justice Department's top public corruption attorney and a career official, has met three times, most recently in May, with lawyers for Peter Paul to discuss a plea deal. Justice wants to interview Paul to see whether he can substantiate his allegations that Clinton's campaign engaged in wrongdoing, the defense lawyers said.
http://tinyurl.com/vplat
Only a bit?
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