Berger investigated for taking classified reports

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, July 20, 2004

[JohnHuang2]

The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com

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Berger investigated for taking classified reports

Published July 20, 2004

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
    President Clinton's national security adviser, Samuel R. Berger, is the focus of a criminal investigation after removing highly classified documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room while preparing for the September 11 commission hearings.
    Mr. Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI agents authorized with warrants.
    Some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of al Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing.
    Mr. Berger and his attorney told the Associated Press last night that he knowingly removed handwritten notes that he had taken from classified anti-terror documents he reviewed at the National Archives by sticking them in his jacket and pants.
    He inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio and also accidentally threw away some documents, they said.

[JDoutrider]

This is HUGH!

[GOPrincess]

And SERIES!

[Howlin]

and sat up into the wee hours every night waiting for new developments from the next day's papers to make the web :).

Me, too! I didn't join FR until July 20, 1998! I got the email and sat up waiting till 7 a.m. so I could call somebody.........LOL.

[piasa]

1996 : (LINDA HUANG, DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN DONOR, ARRESTED FOR GUN SMUGGLING) Linda Huang got her self arrested in 1996, along with several others, for trying to smuggle 2,000 AK-47s into the country so that L.A’s street gangs could have some new toys to play with. Dear Linda was also part of a drug smuggling ring that had been organised by Beijing. - "The Democrats’ drug running links," by Gerard Jackson , The New Australian News with Commentary, Friday 1 June 2001

[Tom_Busch]

I'm dying to know what that's all about too. He got to hand pick what documents the commission got to see?? I just don't get it.

[jonrick46]

I hope so. This may be what I hope us the fatal blow to the Democrats. Now all we need is someone who served with Kerry to step forward and tell the world that Kerry worked the system by getting three minor injuries to purposely shorten his tour in Viet Nam.

[jonrick46]

This is what Wilson said they should do to Karl Rove. So good the tables will be turned.

[AuntB]

Linda Huang, as in Johnnie Huang? Then there's Diane Fienstien's hubby who simply got a waiver from Clinton to import a bunch of Chinese semi's. The world just get's smaller and smaller, doesn't it?

[jonrick46]

The missing documents probably landed in John Kerry's lap.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

They'll be found on some hall table somewhere in a couple of years.

[ricktex401]

This story will have no legs at all. You people do not understand how completely coopted the press is by the Democrats.

[JohnHuang2]

In the age of the internet and blogs, it's out of the press's hands. This story definitely has legs.

[piasa]

Is your beeber stuned?

[TEXOKIE]

Hope-this-REALLY-has-legs bump!

[P8riot]

Richmond Ping

Something for today's RTM

[anniegetyourgun]

I wish I had your optimism, DFU.

[rabidralph]

I hope he hangs.

[BluH2o]

This story will have no legs at all. You people do not understand how completely coopted the press is by the Democrats.

Agree ... I've been thru a half dozen "gates" involving the Clinton's, or people on their staff, nothing sticks ... this will be old news in 2 or 3 days.

[CDHart]

Earlier this year? And we're just now hearing about it?

Carolyn

[Carolinamom]

Fox & Friends Tues. morning: NYT has the Sandy Berger story on page A17 at the bottom of the page.