[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

In this whole SIX paragraph story (bound to be buried somewhere on B23), the Slimes just conveniently leaves out the fact that two memos disappeared.

What a liberal rag.

[marron]

I like the part where he inadvertently stuffs them into his pants and his briefcase. They avoided quoting him here. Thats like leaving out the punchline to the joke.

[RobbyS]

Can you imagine what they would say if this was a Republic official? " Obviously a cover up is in progress; to the stake with him!"

[xm177e2]

Mr. Berger returned all of the documents and notes to the archives in October, within a week of his learning they were missing, his lawyers said.

He absentmindedly took them with him, but he knew exactly where they were in order to return them?

[thegreatbeast]

Just what you want in your National Security Adviser:"sloppiness".
The smell coming off of this is wicked! Will we ever get a straight answer or a square investigation of this?

[Pikamax]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5711928

"Berger and one of his lawyers said he inadvertently removed copies of a classified memo and his handwritten notes on the material he reviewed, but immediately returned them when he was told by the Archives the documents were missing.

"I immediately returned everything I had, except for a few documents that apparently I had accidentally discarded," Berger said in a statement.

"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but 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.

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OMG, IF a GOP did this, he would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

[Howlin]

Mr. Berger returned all of the documents and notes to the archives in October, within a week of his learning they were missing, his lawyers said.

My, my.....how nice of him! The Times makes it almost sound altruistic, doesn't it?

Federal agents investigated Mr. Berger's handling of the materials, a senior government official said this evening. The official said the inquiry's results were being reviewed Justice Department prosecutor, who will decide whether any laws were broken.

Then why is it STILL being investigated?

This is an ongoing investigation -- as far as I have read, there are no "results" to be reviewed.

[inkling]

"In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with requests by the 9/11 commission, I inadvertently took a few documents from the archives," Mr. Berger said in a statement.

This statement is very odd, and it's in both this story and the AP account. Why is Berger doing anything on behalf of a now non-existent administration? Is Clinton still giving orders to his former cabinet officers? Was Berger asked to make some damaging documents disappear (into his pants)? Are Berger and his lawyer intentionally redirecting inquiries to Bubba, et al?

We'll have to wait and see if the press reports this as a huge story or a "third-rate burglary."

[nutmeg]

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[garandgal]

This entire scenario is ridiculous.

All of us regular people have drawers full of silly, mundane items...like old receipts, and warranties for a TV that we bought five years ago.

All of us, in our work, keep files of things that we'll probably never need again..."but you never know."

To "mistakenly" discard documents related to national security, OBVIOUSLY does not happen accidentally. While I'm well aware that Clinton had a bunch of idiots on staff...no one is that stupid.

That said, will anything be done? Probably not.

[Lancey Howard]

President Bill Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, removed classified security documents from the National Archives while vetting them in preparation for testimony before the Sept. 11 commission....

While "vetting" them?? What's that mean?
Is this the Old Gray Whore trying to sound intelligent?
Or are they just trying to use fancy words to help slip their horse-manure spin of this absolutely devastating news for Hillary and Bill under the radar?