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

As was Reno. Babes. Cronies. Lackies.


1,681 posted on 07/20/2004 6:48:42 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: piasa

Thanks for all the links. You do really good work at collecting this stuff. And keeping up with it. :) I remember the dead state department worker story now. Did they ever solve that one?

As for Soros, I usually do not read the stories about him. Maybe I should start.


1,682 posted on 07/20/2004 6:49:15 AM PDT by petitfour
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Memo (in my pants)
- to the tune of Monster (in my pants) by Fred Schneider and the Shake Society

there's a memo in my pants
and it isn't there by chance
I hoped to smuggle it out
But an Archivist made a shout

memo AHHH!
Berger ohhh..
get out of here Sandy!
memo!
Berger!
get out of here Sandy!

there's a memo in my pants
an inadvertant dalliance
if it sees the light of day
you can hear the people say

oh no Clinton!
oh no Bill!
oh no oh oh oh no a Giant Screwup
Clinton!
Hillary!
oh no a Giant Screwup!

Shred the paper and shred some more
don't wanna see that memo no more

Shred the paper and shred some more
don't wanna see that memo no more

there's a memo in my pants
so from the Archive I will prance
when I get it to my room
then my fireplace will bloom

take that, memo!
take that, memo!
take it! take it!
take that you awful thing!

take that AAAAH!
take that aaaah...
take that you naughty memo

they don't wear pants on the other side of France
but you'll have to sleuth to find the real truth

memo!
memo!
a Smoking Gun memo !

there's a memo on the run
and it wants to have some fun
when it flies into the air
all the people stop and stare
the Pubs all give a yell (yay!)
and the Dems all start to shriek (AAAH!)
when they see it's blaming Bill
for the bungle of the Sheik

Pubs: gosh will you look at that thang!
Dems: and I thought it was shredded!
1,683 posted on 07/20/2004 6:49:32 AM PDT by vollmond (DS2 CV-66 83-87)
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To: TexasCajun

......on the last line......

So that a clever editor, pushed for space, or for political reasons, can cut the story within a story, as well as this fact.


1,684 posted on 07/20/2004 6:51:23 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: January24th
Yeah, according to Katie Couric and David G., it's all Bush's scandal, not the Bergler's.

Someone has to morph Sandy Berger and the McD Hamburgler into the "Sand Bergler".

1,685 posted on 07/20/2004 6:51:38 AM PDT by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: reagandemo
"Remember one thing. The Rats are firm believers in "the ends justifies the means". They will risk the well being of each and everyone of us to retain or gain power. Nothing is more sacred to them. You and your families mean nothing in the scheme of things. Be very very afraid. One can only guess what other revelations are to be made."


They have already put at risk the well being of this nation.

No wonder Jay Rockefeller was so animated over that Senate Intelligence report, he could not shut up.

So when did he know that Berger was stealing classified documents?
1,686 posted on 07/20/2004 6:51:53 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: jigsaw
Kansas has cubicles?! ;-)

Yeah, and we just got this new thing called the in-ter-net last year.

(I actually work in Kansas City, MO)

1,687 posted on 07/20/2004 6:52:40 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas ("There are two Americas, unfortunately for Edwards, neither one voted for him." Conan O'Brien)
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To: Miss Marple

It is consistent with the Democrats under Clinton to leak information prior to an event, then blame it on the Pubbies.


1,688 posted on 07/20/2004 6:54:10 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: faithincowboys
And Senator Idiot Lott is playing it down on FNC. GOd, Our side is total losers. Get Lott off tv already.

Worth repeating for all the LOTT defenders 2 years ago. Be thankful he is not in leadership anymore. Good riddence.

1,689 posted on 07/20/2004 6:55:15 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas ("There are two Americas, unfortunately for Edwards, neither one voted for him." Conan O'Brien)
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To: Redbob
Trousergate! Let's keep this new "-gate" word out there!

Here's how this scandal will be made into a movie.


1,690 posted on 07/20/2004 6:55:42 AM PDT by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: Lurking in Kansas

LOL!


1,691 posted on 07/20/2004 6:57:04 AM PDT by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops.)
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To: Just mythoughts
OK let's see. The Rats have been caught again. The spin has started that it's a VRWC and that the Bush Administration timed this for the Rat Convention. Berger was only a low level adviser to the Toon. Yadda, Yadda, all the same. I am waiting for Mr. Joe Q Public to wake up and see what these traitors are doing to this country. To Mr. Berger: You knew better this was not sloppy work. Your party lost me with Carter and for good reason!
1,692 posted on 07/20/2004 6:57:43 AM PDT by reagandemo (The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Aw, Dammit!!!

It's Bush's fault again!!!


1,693 posted on 07/20/2004 6:58:46 AM PDT by aShepard
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To: jla

Anyone knows who has used the National Archives that you only get material out of there by stealing it. By purposefully stealing it! This is no mistake, and those who use the archives understand that to take things away incurrs a criminal offense. Berger now confirms what his critics knew all along; he is a sneaking, lying, miserable coward.


1,694 posted on 07/20/2004 7:00:07 AM PDT by gaspar
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Bump for later reading


1,695 posted on 07/20/2004 7:00:41 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: petercooper

1,696 posted on 07/20/2004 7:01:08 AM PDT by New Perspective (Proud father of a 7 month old son with Down Syndrome)
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To: Republican Red; All
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1,697 posted on 07/20/2004 7:01:29 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: reagandemo
"OK let's see. The Rats have been caught again. The spin has started that it's a VRWC and that the Bush Administration timed this for the Rat Convention. Berger was only a low level adviser to the Toon. Yadda, Yadda, all the same. I am waiting for Mr. Joe Q Public to wake up and see what these traitors are doing to this country. To Mr. Berger: You knew better this was not sloppy work. Your party lost me with Carter and for good reason!"


I have read no where that attributes this story to the Bush administration. Might be an attempt to force action and response from the Bush administration to the status of the investigation.

Typically the Clinton response was "no comment", or blame a Republican, but Berger admits he took documents. So apparently he was alerted in advance that the story was going to be leaked.
1,698 posted on 07/20/2004 7:03:21 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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looks like SLICK WILLIE is in hot water again...and he didn't even get to speak at the DNC yet!


1,699 posted on 07/20/2004 7:05:55 AM PDT by Legion04
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To: Just mythoughts
I believe Gergan and Lanny Davis both mentioned the Bush administration as the reason for the timing. At least I think other posters mentioned them on this and other threads. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. It's too much in their character. My other big question is why was Bruce Lindsay called? What connection to the archives does he have?
1,700 posted on 07/20/2004 7:08:34 AM PDT by reagandemo (The battle is near are you ready for the sacrifice?)
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