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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I thought earlier reports said these were various drafts of the final report. Therefore, they probably had damaging statements in them that were removed when the drafts were sanitized for final production. You know, higher-ups seeing a phrase that would make them look bad so they strike it out. The different versions would clearly show what the various people involved in the production of the final report hid. I pray that there are copies of the missing documents somewhere so that we can discover what Berger is hiding.
They better put Berger on suicide watch but with the guards facing outward, not inward.
Most corrupt!
I'll bump that!
I think he did.
Yeah, it couldn't be helped. It had to come out. But the lamestream media is hardly trumpeting it.
Expand what u meant, exactly ....
In all seriousness, this is a very big story and if what we here so far is true, far more people are in trouble than just Berger and Clinton. This could make Watergate look like a Jay Walking case
If I understand it correctly, while you are in the room, you can take notes for yourself; but once you leave the room, your notes stay there.
My guess is that Berger took advantage of his status
Protecting himself from what? It may have been easier to control the fallout from his previous action rather than this.
No! I don't think we want to go there!
In other words, shouldn't AP's story title read, "Kerry Advisor Probed..."?
Humor me and tell me how, kind sir.
Kerry served on the Intel committee and both Wilson and Berger are on his payroll as advisor's
Think you got it right!!
Can't you people just get over your Clinton Obsession?
The guy is years out of office and you're still consumed by him.
/s
Is it just me, or are all these "stories" about how nasty Bush has been beginning to come to, shall we say, "fruition?"
Do you understand what I mean? Why he's been so "cool," if you will?
Will the 9/11 commission withhold releasing its report on Thursday now? How can they complete their investigation when it is now known that Sandy stuffed papers down his pants that they did not get to see?????
He's the one. I was always suspicious of that one. Well, I have to say I am suspicious of most anything to do with the Clintons.
Berger prepped Clinton with the stolen documents.
MEMOGATE???
Right you are.
This is HUGE.
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