"He was supposed to be monitored at all times but kept asking the monitor to leave so he could make private calls," a senior law enforcement source told the Daily News.
More info not included in the WP story:
Berger also took "lots of bathroom breaks" that apparently aroused some suspicion, the source added.
It is standard security procedure to constantly monitor anyone with a security clearance who examines the type of code-word classified files stored in the underground archives vault in the building where tourists view the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Asked if guards left Berger alone in the classified reading room while he made calls, archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper replied, "I'm not going to say I haven't heard that."
The same archives monitors told the FBI that Berger was observed stuffing his socks with handwritten notes about files he reviewed that were going to the Sept. 11 panel. It is prohibited to make notes about the secret files and leave with them without special approval.
"Stuffed socks and pockets is real," the senior law enforcement official said. "The (theft) was reported by the guards." Link
The record of Berger's cell phone calls for that day will be very interesting.
I confess: I do not like Sandy Berger; and I have not liked him since the first time we met, long ago during the McGovern campaign, not because of his politics since I more or less shared them then, but for his hauteur. He clearly still has McGovernite politics, which means, in my mind, at least, that he believes there is no international dispute that can't be solved by the U.S. walking away from it. No matter.
...he has had ambitions tied to John Kerry's, ambitions that clash with those of Richard Holbrooke and Joe Biden, who decisively do not have McGovernite politics. But Berger did run the Kerry foreign policy team at the writing of the Democratic Party platform a few weeks ago (when the only opposition, easily pacified, came from a handful of Dennis Kucinich loyalists) and has been deeply involved in crafting how the candidate presents himself on these issues.
Effin' tells Tom Brokaw "he didn't have a clue."
There's so much CYAin' going on there must be a mighty wind blowing around DC this week.
I have been watching Shiny Happy Kerry this morning and can say with certainty that not only has been re-botoxed, he has had a serious chemical peel and that's why he is so smooth and shiny.
I so want to punch him. He's such a phoney.
Now, I can't imagine that he was stuffing his socks and pants with the monitor in the room, so I'm left to wonder how the monitors saw this and am inclined to hope that the sessions were videotaped -- IOW's I hope they monitored via tv monitors. hehehe
Regarding Berger's making phone calls from the secure room without monitors present:
Consider that he may have been using a cell phone capable of sending digital photos.
Very foolish if archives staff allowed him to do this.