AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos [Sandy Berger is the focus of a criminal investigation]

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AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos

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By JOHN SOLOMON

WASHINGTON - President Clinton (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation after admitting he removed highly classified terrorism documents from a secure reading room during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, The Associated Press has learned.

Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI (news - web sites) agents armed with warrants. Some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing.

Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed handwritten notes he had taken from classified anti-terror documents he reviewed at the National Archives by sticking them in his jacket and pants. He also inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio, they said.

"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of withholding documents from the commission, and to the contrary, to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced," Berger said in a statement to the AP.

Berger served as Clinton's national security adviser for all of the president's second term and most recently has been informally advising Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites). Clinton asked Berger last year to review and select the administration documents that would be turned over to the commission.

The FBI searched Berger's home and office with warrants earlier this year after employees of the National Archives told agents they believed they witnessed Berger put documents into his clothing while reviewing sensitive Clinton administration papers, officials said.

When asked, Berger said he returned some of the classified documents, which he found in his office, and all of the handwritten notes he had taken from the secure room, but said he could not locate two or three copies of the highly classified millennium terror report.

[MJY1288]

Thanks!

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

The Times ran a six paragraph article, IGNORING reports that any documents were missing. They fasely gave the impression that all of the documents had been returned.

What a f#@#ing joke the Slimes is.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1174603/posts

[piasa]

APRIL 5, 1997 : (BERGER, ALBRIGHT AND OTHERS ARE UNRESPONSIVE TO REPEATED QUERIES FROM HAMILTON CONCERNING SUDANESE OFFER OF INTEL) Sudan's president, Omar Hassan El Bashir, delivered to me [Mansoor Ijaz] a final, unconditional political offer, addressed to Rep. Lee Hamilton, to invite FBI and CIA officials to go to Khartoum and evaluate Sudanese intelligence data on terrorists that had lived in or passed through Sudan. The offer went without a reply even as Hamilton repeatedly queried Berger, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and others about what was wrong with the offer and why it was not being evaluated more seriously. Correspondence in my files fully documents these events. - "The Clinton Intel Record
Deeper failures revealed. ," by Mansoor Ijaz, National Review Online, 4-29-2003

[Jeff Chandler]

I work with these morons and I have to supervise them to the point it's borderline that I don't rip their stupid heads off.

A guy I know has the same problem. When people ask him what he does for a living he answers "I train monkeys."

[Fledermaus]

Where? An actual video? Oh wait. It still doesn't matter. I'm going back to my conjecture that Hillary could be seen shooting kids at a school and the left will say it's the GOP's fault! Sorry, totally cynical tonight! And, leaving. Took you FOREVER to catch up and I should have been asleep over an hour ago!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

There's a video of Berger stuffing documents down his pants,for crying out loud.

I just got here. Are you SERIOUS?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Oops - I just saw it in the article. Nevermind. : )

WOW. THAT IS SO HIP! FOR ONCE, THEY GET CAUGHT!!!

[Fledermaus]

I appreciate your enthusisam. But you are depending on the GOP to actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT and you they have no track record.

Sorry, facts get in the way!

Regards

[Fledermaus]

LOL...Monkeys would be easier!

[doug from upland]

You must read THE THIRD TERRORIST by Jayna Davis. Some in the FBI have covered up the Iraqi connection in the OKC bombing. The evidence is overwhelming. Jayna may well win a Pullitzer. Clinton had to have OKC be domestic terrorism. That saves his presidency and polarized the nation. His side had the defeat the dreaded right wing no matter what.

TWA Flight 800 could not have possibly happened as they said. The first report I heard was on CBS. The bulletin said that the PENTAGON is reporting an airplane that blew up at 12,000 feet. I never again heard a report that said it was reported by the Pentagon. During an election year, Clinton could not allow us to know that a terrorist act took out that plane. It would shut down the airline industry and do economic damage.

Berger takes a classified report and loses it? The very report that was never given to Bush. The very report that has al Qaeda info that Clinton claims he gave to Bush. Nope. They hid this info from the Bush team. They have been caught in a lie of monumental proportion.

TWA Flight 800 is proceeding in court. For OKC, Jayna Davis is making the rounds on more talk shows. She will be on COAST TO COAST at the beginning of August.

What has been going on with Clinton agents in the FBI is starting to unravel. It may all come apart on him and on the RATS. It is a house of cards.

[nopardons]

And I'm posting too quickly,so that I don't miss too much,I left out the word never.I just won't ever catch up now.

[Fledermaus]

I've always believed, from basic evidence, that both OKC and TWA 800 were terroist attacks the Clinton Admin covered up.

It's so obvious. McVeigh was an idiot. He was recruited during the Gulf War. He didn't have enough brains to do what he did in OKC.

Even George Stepphieboy slipped up on national TV and said, "when TWA 800 was blown up".

[doug from upland]

Perhaps Gorelick's wall. Jayna's story is not going to be denied. The evidence is overwhelming about Iraqi help in blowing up OKC. What is amazing is that they have gotten away with it for so long. Read THE THIRD TERRORIST.

Tim McVeigh went down without squealing because he wanted to be a martyr. He wanted to be the one who got back at the government for Ruby Ridge and Waco. Never would he want to be associated with being a traitor who was colluding with foreign agents.

[Jeff Chandler]

The OKC bombing info coming out before the election is a secret fantasy of mine (the older I get, the less interesting my fantasies become).

I'm not counting on it.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

Bump to finish reading later.

[doug from upland]

Read THE THIRD TERRORIST. It shines the light of truth on OKC. It is undeniable. That story, I convinced, is going to keep steamrolling. The truth will be exposed.

[Fledermaus]

Thanks buddy, I'll do that! Night.

[doug from upland]

I don't think it will happen before the election. But count on it ---- OKC will be solved. A few members of the 9-11 commission are reading THE THIRD TERRORIST right now.

[nopardons]

That's why I just can't keep up with this thread............I'm reading every post. :-)

[TeleStraightShooter]

Don't you just love how this news is coming out just days before the 'Rat convention

Yes it is.

However, we know that the events in question took place 9 months ago; So why are we learning of it this evening?

From what I gather, Ashcroft, in his testimony to the 9/11 committee this spring, alluded to the original un-washed-by-Beger report that Damned Clinton. So insiders on both side of the aisle knew this would break before the election, just when?

Perhaps the 'Rats {they very well might be the source of this leak} want this issue to be hot on the skewer now so they can use the upcoming convention to publicly water the issue down with 98 degree .....