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OK...Clinton sent Berger to review the documents. He had to get permission to do so, correct?

Now, perhaps someone in the administration went and reviewed those documents first. And perhaps they found the incriminating evidence.

What to do? Well, make additional copies of the incriminating evidence and put it somewhere safe (note that the Archives says they may have copies of some of the things he took). The reason I think this is that he was allowed to remove the stuff and wasn't stopped on the spot.

Then, after he has left the building with the documents (and no doubt witnessed doing so and maybe on tape as well) he is notified that some documents are missing.

He returns everything except the incriminating stuff. Voila! A slam-dunk case.

Now, if he was under investigation and had his home searched by the FBI, it would seem to me that this is information Kerry knew about, either from Berger, or from someone in the government who would be duty bound to notify Kerry that one of his advisors was a potential security risk. Kerry HAD to have known.

Now, what does this tell us about Kerry? Either he is unwilling to dump a Clintonista for fear of the wrath of the Clintons, or this isn't a big deal to him, since he himself pulled such a move with the POW information. And there is every possibility that Kerry was in on this plot.

Life is good. W is playing hardball, and things are going to be very interesting the next few weeks.

Sandy Berger had to request to see the documents, he would have to give the dates of the memos or documents and they would send him to where they were. I have been to the National Archives and there are camera's everywhere, they have him on camera taking these documents, I guarantee it.

Being a former Nat. Sec Adviser he would have clearance to see them, he would just need a reason, and granted permission from the proper authority

You don't just willy-nilly copy these level of documents.

My guess is the security audit mechanism tripped him up. I dealt with this level stuff many years ago. With these level of docs, you don't move a piece of paper without a log and security audits are routine over time. A routine security audit likely tripped the alarm at the FBI.

Have to have been pretty damaging stuff to risk this exposure. This is not trivial.

Dang! I go out for dinner for the first time in weeks and come home to find this! I'm late to the party but has anyone mentioned this?

Bush Aides Block Clinton's Papers From 9/11 Panel
The general counsel of Mr. Clinton's presidential foundation, Bruce Lindsey, who was his deputy White House counsel, said in an interview that he was concerned that the Bush administration had applied a "very legalistic approach to the documents" and might have blocked the release of material that would be valuable to the commission.
Mr. Lindsey said he first complained to the commission in February after learning from the archives that the Bush administration had withheld so many documents.
"I voiced a concern that the commission was making a judgment on an incomplete record," he said. "I want to know why there is a 75 percent difference between what we were ready to produce and what was being produced to the commission."

I wonder if this is relevant.