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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BUMP!
Paging Woodward and Bernstein...
and Berger will roll over, allowing the Slick One to slither out again....
Could mean other documents
BTW .. how did the FBI find out about this?
If I may quote my dear departed son, Drew, "Sweet."
Yep. They'd risk having a clown like Berger back in the government, rather than support Bush.
My guess is that right about now she is involved in a hastily arranged conference call with her patrons at the DNC, the Tides Foundation and the Kerry campaign, frantically begging for her script.
Gee, maybe someone's promised him a pardon...
And......it's only Monday. ;-)
Right. But only after the photocopies were sent to who..? who...? who...?
Slickister & PIAPS? Now of these Clintonistas free-lance. Ole Sandy just didn't waltz in there on his own accord.
but said he could not locate two or three copies of the highly classified millennium terror report.
Whoa!!!!
And I have NO idea how they found out, but I'm loving it!
Something in that report had a man throw away his career for....Berger is done in government forever after this..
Desperation isn't the word....
We knew that...Now we can deduce he instructed him on what to do with what he "selected".
Great find....Pass it on to all you can think of.
No sir, I dare call it treason. For that is EXACTLY what it is. You cannot accidently insert documents into ones clothing. It must be done intentionally. Therefore, he did it to undermine the investigation of the attacks that killed our fellow citizens.
And that is what upsets me the most. These Islamofascists killed our own friends and neighbors, and this weasel tries to obstruct the investigation on how it happened.
Hang him. Now.
OMG.......it's a GREAT NIGHT:
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Patience really is a virtue...
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