Posted on 07/19/2004 5:07:42 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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.
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I have a question:
Are there copies available of the documents that Berger stole? I know a lot of highly classified stuff isn't disseminated widely with copies but is there at LEAST one copy to know what it was he was particularly interested in?
It was Clarke, at the direction of Berger, who wrote up the report.
I can't wait for this to really get talked about today..........
Fox and Friends, now!
Don't forger Deutsch, who was pardoned..........A CIA director, PARDONED
I particularly appreciated Steve Doucey saying he was "accidentally" taking some papers while stuffing them in his pants. HAHAHAHA!
Did you see the comment about Gergen up the thread from the Today show appearance? Something about Gergen said this was a Republican thing.
He could only mean that it was a Republican leak coming before the convention.
Considering the Rats have known about this since October, we know they certainly weren't going to leak it.
No wonder Barbara Bush doesn't trust Gergen.
The National Archives are useless. If access can be granted to historical documents that have no copies, then why should we trust anything now found in the Archives?
Exactly!
Berger is Kerry's foreign policy advisor.
AND, considering that a few weeks ago Kerry's spokesmen said that Kerry was being kept in the loop about the latest AQ threat by his own advisors, I guess we know it was Berger. So Berger must have friends in the CIA who are willing to illegally pass along threat chatter intelligence, and Berger passes it to Kerry.
How do you like that?
Hillary has her 200,000 name enemies database, all garnered illegally in the White House..........I wonder if the Clintons will have to buy a new house, or build a second basement, to keep all these stolen documents in. Oh, I forgot about the "shred of evidence" thing Billy boy will be spewing shortly....... /sarc.
Thanks for the ping
If the story was leaked before the commission report and the convention to discredit the report and the Rats, all I have to say is congratulations to the administration for finally playing hardball.
So three of the most arrogant, venemous anti-Bush testifiers are connected so tightly in this, that I would have to think something is terribly wrong and it looks like a conspiracy. These are Indians. I have no doubt that Bubba and Hillary were still commanding their indians and are even more deeply involved.
If you have a weak heart do not read the CIA Inspector General report on John Deutch dated February 19, 2000. President Clinton, on his way out the door, pardoned John Deutch, who had served briefly as CIA director.
How many CIA directors have been pardoned by outgoing administrations to prevent an official investigation?
I don't recall hearing or reading of this in our media outlets, when it happened or later, particularly after 9/11
when national security was discussed.
Does Berger's stuffing this stuff down his pants smack to anyone else of something worse than desperation? If they were going to mess with the docs, why not before then? And when Berger did do it, couldn't he have planned a method with a bit more finesse? Had they been doing this for months and run out of time? What's with the rush? Anything Berger had access to is TAINTED and USELESS now, to my mind anyway.
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Gergen didn't actually say that but implied it. Gergen was saying how great a person Berger was and couldn't beleive he would do such a thing, blah, blah, blah.
Look up the term "Beltway Prostitute" and you would see Gergen's picture, IMO.
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