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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How in the world can the 9-11 commission issue a report this week when they have no idea what was in the documents that were inadvertently thrown away?What was in those documents?I am outraged!
Jim Lehrer led a discussion with experts on possible terrorist threats on his PBS program, the JIM LEHRER REPORT, on the evening of December 20.
"Despite the heightened alert that U.S. Customs agents have put on every port of entry into the United States, officials say terrorists may be planning a millennium attack on American citizens," according to Spencer Michels of PBS.
White House National Security Advisor Sandy Berger was quoted as having said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" interview program Sunday that "Americans should be vigilant, as they go about their plans for the New Year's, if they see something suspicious, see packages or activities that they think are unusual, they should obviously let law enforcement people know." Berger added that the U.S. is not aware at this point of other specific threats against particular targets.
HUGH who?
;)
My tagline until the election:
A vote for Kerry-Edwards is a vote for Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Jacques Chirac, the UN, International Criminal Court, and Hollyweirdos.
Failure to vote, or a vote for a minority party, is a vote for Kerry-Edwards (unless you’re a liberal/Leftist who’ll vote Nader, a minority party, or stay home).
I am confident that Gorelick knew exactly what was in those papers. The rest of the Commission, not so much . . .
It's Clelland and "sheets" Byrd on MTP too.
Not only did he take them -- But he didn't return them all!
Part from AP wire report not included above --
"The officials said the [STILL] missing documents were highly classified, and included critical assessments about the Clinton administration's handling of the millennium terror threats as well as identification of America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to sea ports".
I just wonder how long the MSM has had this story and wouldn't print it?
Remnants of the blue dress, I think. LOL
Headlines we won't see...but I'd like too...
CLINTON DOCS IN KERRY OP'S PANTS
SECOND ZIPPERGATE
OSAMA NOTES IN BERGER'S COAT
KERRY'S HANDY SANDY
BERGER CHARGES DROPPED. PROSECUTORS: "ONLY THE INSANE WOULD HAVE TRIED THIS"
and my favorite for now...
JOE WILSON: "SANDY DIDN'T STEAL, HE WAS A CONDUIT. ANODYNE NEOCONS ARE LIARS."
This is incredible. I swear it's the same words Hillery's squads used about those missing Whitewater/etc. papers that turned up in her closet! That might be the first place to check! AH!
As of 9:00pm Eastern, CNN's website doesn't have the story (not anywhere where I can see it, anyway), but MSNBC's webpage has it: "Berger Investigated", along with his picture, but it's not the lead story.
You want lies with that Berger?
Lock him up, lose the key.
"He said he thought they were copies which is utter BS."
If he were permitted to take anything, he wouldn't be stuffing them in his clothes.
BTW, this was a former National Security Advisor? What, he didn't think he might be watched? Sheesh.
as well as identification of America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to sea ports".
He took the report deatiling all our weaknesses at airports.
Information critical of the Clinton administration's handling of terrorism. It's buried a few paragraphs down in the above article. See Post #17.
They did say that the documents were described as "...damaging to the Clinton Administration."
Wednesday, 17 May, 2000
President Clinton has made his most direct accusation yet that the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden tried to blow up Americans over the turn of the millennium.
Mr Clinton said publicly, and in greater detail, what United States officials had previously alleged in private - that a complex series of arrests from Seattle to Jordan at the end of last year were linked to a single plot.
"Last December, working with Jordan, we shot down a plot to place large bombs at locations where Americans might gather on New Year's Eve.
"We learned this plot was linked to terrorist camps in Afghanistan, and the organisation created by Osama bin Laden," Mr Clinton said.
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