Berger May Have Taken Documents That Replaced Earlier Documents He Took!

Washington Post ^ | Monday, July 19, 2004; 9:11 PM | By John Solomon

[ladyinred]

LOL! They were destroyed to protect Bill and Hillary at their direction, trust me.

[Brimack34]

Will the corruption ever stop from the Clinton mob??

[Howlin]

Maybe he was doctoring the report and swapping out copies.

Great thought....but weren't these documents at the National Archive?

[spokeshave]

"Officials familiar with the investigation said Archives staff specially marked the documents and when the new copy and others disappeared,"

I guess its too much to expect that they have a water tight case here.

[Natural Law]

"May have....??????????"

The assh*le has admitted it!

[rwfromkansas]

Blazing Saddles is awesome.

[Paleo Conservative]

I really can't understand why anyone would have been given access to the original documents without being supervised by armed guards. Really there is no reason to access the paper documents at all. They could just as easily been scanned to PDF's. If need be the PDF versions could have been restricted to being viewed at the archives while under guard.

[Paleo Conservative]

It is a pity that W, by virtue of being re-elected just may have to 'pardon' Clinton in a few more years just as he leaves office.

I seriously doubt it. If Bill Clinton needs a pardon, he'll have to wait for a DemocRAT administration's last days.

[lonevoice]

"I immediately returned everything I had inadvertently stuffed in my pants except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded when I threw my pants away." Yep, nothing wrong here.

[nutmeg]

Berger/Klintoon legacy ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[snooker]

Here is how I think this stovepipe compartment worked.

The archives bring over copies of what they have.

The committee thinks they have good docs.

Berger goes in and is supposed to pick out what the committee might want to review. Berger substitutes a fixed copy, gives that to the committee, as one he picks out.

The committee thinks they have good copy, nobody is the wiser. Until Berger gets caught smuggling something out. Watergate take two HA .

It would be laborious to go back to the archive and get another copy. No one would probably think to do this. Or they could have had the original and Berger was actually revising it.

The process is usually serial, with only limited people in the room at a time. But since we don't know how they were running the room, it's just my educated guess.

[John Lenin]

No one has been murdered ... yet ...

[scott7278]

"Clinton asked Berger last year to review and select the administration documents that would be turned over to the commission."

I guess he left the ones he selected.

[StarFan]

Did you see this in the article:

"In the FBI search of his office, Berger also was found in possession of a small number of classified note cards containing his handwritten notes from the Middle East peace talks during the 1990s, but those are not a focus of the current criminal probe, officials and lawyers said. "

Are there any controls to what can and cannot be removed?

[Howlin]

Maybe the first time he takes the original......."fixes" it and then tries to replaces it the second time?

[exhaustedmomma]

His home and offices were searched earlier this year? How much earlier?
Is this an old story?

Good question. First I've heard about it. Can't find anything anywhere about this either. hmmmmmmmmmm

[snooker]

Yeah, I would guess something like that was going on. He definitely was playing fast and loose with the copies. Probably deleting and adding trying to make it come out right.

Just like Watergate, the cover up gets you every time. This is going to be fun.

[underbyte]

I like the timing on this one, news out just before the Dem convention.

Wonder how many choice news stories remain to be released before NOV. ;)

[Mo1]

Maybe he was doctoring the report and swapping out copies.

Very possible .. and it would put him in even more trouble

[nopardons]

bttt