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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It isn't Kenneth Starr :-)
When did they search his house?
They are imploding, Clinton's legacy won't go away.
Officials familiar with the investigation said Archives staff specially marked the documents and when the new copy and others disappeared, Archives officials called Clinton attorney Bruce Lindsey to report the disappearance.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040720/D83U6TIO0.html
CALL BRUCE LINDSEY ???¿¿¿
You're welcome!
I sure hope you're a freeperette!
Truly unbelievable.....not that the Pantload was capable of doing this...... that comes as no surprise........but the fact he actually thought he was going to get away with it.
Earlier, I likened him to a cheap crook shoplifing underwear at Wal-Mart. But on second thought, that's an insult to cheap crooks.
This guy's a treacherous bottom-feeder who demonstrates an umnmitigated contempt for us and the safety and security of our Nation.
Saving his own stinking skin is more important. He's an outright America hater.
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http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2004/april/80751.htm
Sept 11 panel interviews Clinton in private
April 9, 2004
New York: The US commission investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks met in private with former President Bill Clinton who was "exceedingly generous" and "very candid" in his discussions.
"President Clinton supports and has been cooperating with the commission, and hopes that its work will make America safer."
The Clinton associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity with the Times, said the former president had taken a break from the manuscript of his memoir, due out this summer, to prepare for the session with the help of his former national security advisor, Samuel R Berger, who testified earlier, and with his longtime legal adviser, Bruce Lindsey.
Clinton, the report said, has past acquaintance with virtually all the commission members, and close familiarity with some of the Democrats, including former Senator Bob Kerrey who competed against him for the Democratic nomination in 1992; Jamie S Gorelick, who was his deputy attorney general; and Richard Ben-Veniste, an ex Watergate prosecutor who testified before the House Judiciary Committee against Clinton's impeachment over Monica Lewinsky affair in 1998.
We have Joe Wilson outed as a fraud, and Sandy Berger under investigation all in one week, and THEY ARE BOTH ON JOHN KERRY'S PAYROLL
Thank you.
This little Clintonista is working for Slick Willie & HRC. Their minions don’t free-lance. This was on orders from headquarters. The order went out; “Cover Willie’s @ss” and conversely HRC’s too.
Burger-boy got caught. But there are plenty of Clintonistas still out there who haven’t; Gorelick being the chief. Hopefully, her day will come.
The Clintoons are the big disaster in our nation’s history. They & their minions are still alive & well.
Ever vigilante, my friend!
Count your blessings!! Mine are Hitlery and Scummee!!!
Huh!?!
I find myself compelled to watch the Today Show tomorrow morning.
Officials familiar with the investigation said Archives staff specially marked the documents and when the new copy and others disappeared,
A sting!!!!!!!!!
"Yes, he sat right behind Clinton. A fact that was "inadvertently" left out of MSM reports, I'm sure."
Could it be this is why the 911 Commission made Clarke and his book look like the "second coming"?
Didn't Clarke take credit for preventing any attacks during this time frame?
The day that Berger took the documents will be very interesting to find out. Maybe it was the day that old Teddy got up on the Senate floor and called President Bush a liar.
Can you see me smiling from up there?
Actually, you can probably hear my maniacal laughing two states away........LOL!
Before Clinton and Berger were interviewed
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