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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There's that visual again............LOL.
I know all that, and you're right except, Clinton never has to account for anything. He isn't afraid of anything. Dems never have to account for anything.
To make sure there's nothing left with which to compare the "new revisionist history documents" that will be *found* to replace them.
bttt
Remember, Cheney, in one interview, said he'd probably seen stuff that the Commission hadn't seen. Hmmmmmmmm
Thanks for confirming that.
It's because he "knows when to hold 'em."
ABC News web site has
AP: Clinton Adviser Probed in Terror Memos
right now.
And we saw it all live.
It's now 10:45 EST and CNN still has not put this story on their web site.
"Looks like Bill and Hitlery are going to have to Fosterize ol' Sandy."
Hillary: " Hey Sandy is that your $20 on the ground?"
Pop Pop 2 in the hat!
Probed?! LOL.
Jailing Berger would not feed a single hungry child.
Somehow the word "wad," when associated with Berger's pants, puts me in mind of something pretty smelly — as in what he might have done when he got caught.
CNN's on suicide watch.
Every reporter in D.C. is on this, this story will dominate the news for the next 6 weeks
I heard it on CNN. The part about stuffing it in his pants and all.
They were told not to ask about those documents.
"When I was informed by the Archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded," he [Berger]said.
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