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Joe Wilson was a no show with Jim Lehrer on The News Hour tonight. Lehrer was plugging the appearance at the top of the show, but nothing happened.

Here are the quotes I found most interesting in the Berger article:

"...to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced," Berger said in a statement to the AP.

We've listened to Clinton-speak long enough to know: IF HE STOLE THE DOCS AND THE COMMISSION DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THEM...THEY COULDN'T REQUEST THEM!!!

And the last line in the article:

The officials said the missing documents ...included...identification of America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to sea ports.

Perhaps the "critical assessments" pointed out airport security weaknesses (Boston?). Berger would have been reading the reports with the benefit of knowing what happened on 9/11 and, maybe, the reports were damning in what they didn't do in 1999 to plug the holes.

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If it wan't requested maybe it was because the Commission didn't know to look for it, or what they'd be looking at. So why snatch the docs? Unless something happened that would suddenly make sense of them. Or unless something else was snatched as well, and these other docs are the cover.