National Security? What's that?
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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My letter to the editor regarding media bias and the Senate Intelligence Committee Report specifically was published in our local newspaper yesterday.
It's worth writing about bias because some of the older folks especially don't understand just how bad the mainstream press has gotten. They have been absolutely AWOL on covering democrats critically for years.
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Yeah, according to Katie Couric and David G., it's all Bush's scandal, not the Bergler's.
Lieberman on FNC now saying Berger is a very experienced national security advisor.
Didn't I read that prior to being appointed by Clinton he had absolutely zero experience?
I agree, Berger's a man of 'udder' integrity.
Heard Mike Barnicle on MSNBC imply it (the image of Berger stuffing papers in his clothes) was good for a few yuks but that's about it.
The London Daily Telegraph reported in June (6/27/99) that NATO's precision-guided missiles "carefully singled out the most sensitive section of the embassy complex for attack"--the intelligence directorate. "That's exactly why they don't buy our explanation," a Pentagon official was quoted as saying.
In July, CIA director George Tenet testified in Congress that out of the 900 targets struck by NATO during the three-month bombing campaign, only one was developed by the CIA: the Chinese Embassy (AP, 7/22/99).
See http://www.fair.org/activism/embassy-bombing.html
Bump!
THE dog ATE MY HOMEOWRK ALERT
Clinton added his own layer of evil doers.
Clearly Colin Powell is not the person to clean up the State Department and Tenet never made any effort to eradicate the evil from the CIA.....
We are in deep trouble!
Sandy Berger deserves a jail cell next to the clintons as you know he did took these documents at the request of bill and hill. The clintons are still up to their mischief at someone's else's expense.
Yup, I saw that. And Senator Idiot Lott is playing it down on FNC. GOd, Our side is total losers. Get Lott off tv already.
Bergergate stinks to high heavean and the GOP is letting him off the hook. What a humiliation. People like Lott should go back to Mississippi. He is a total boob!!!
"Been hearing lots of radio news about this and some TV news too.........none are mentioning that he hid the stuff in his pants. Just spinning his side of the story. Oops, ah, I'll cooperate, oops......."
I bet he will cooperate, playing dumb. Wonder what bj and Hillry are doing? Bet they didn't sleep much last night.
Tenet probably is sighing a breath of relief that he did not have to go into the office today.
Those 911 Commissioners are probably laying very low, as well as Richard Clarke.
Only the lawyers will be stepping up to the mics today.
I visited the dummies last night when this broke and they were freaking out. Most blaming the stupidity of Berger, with a few gratuitous snide remarks at Bush thrown in.
What if Condoleezza Rice shoved some documents in her pants or in her bra?
Joe Biden would be all over TV saying we must have an investigation.
It's what he removed and destroyed.
National Security? What's that?
Gergan's real name is Geerganore = Gergan + whore!
Wait a minute...Socks??? It's being changed to socks??
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