Posted on 07/20/2004 8:09:33 AM PDT by hope
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:02 a.m. EDT WSJ: Berger Took Secret 9/11 Docs on Five Occasions Kerry campaign advisor Sandy Berger removed secret terrorism documents from a 9/11 Commission reading room on no fewer than five occasions, his lawyer Lanny Breuer admitted late Monday night. Breuer told the Wall Street Journal that his client, who served previously as the Clinton administration's National Security Advisor, inadvertently removed several copies of an after-action report on the foiled 1999 Millennium bomb plot during two separate visits to the top secret facility.
Breuer said also that Berger had deliberately removed handwritten notes that he had taken during three additional visits to the Archives last fall to review classified documents. Mr. Breuer said removing those notes was a violation of National Archives policy, and that Mr. Berger regretted the action. "He knew it was a technical violation, and he admits that it was an error in judgment." But according to New York civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby, Berger's decision to remove his notes wasn't just a "technical violation." "You're not permitted to remove anything from that room - period," he said Tuesday morning. "And that means even your notes. If you're taking notes about classified information, those notes are now classified. They're placed in a secure area. You can have access to them only while being viewed by a security officer. Nothing gets removed." Even if Berger had only removed his personal notes on classified material, it would still be a crime, said Kuby, who learned about classified reading room procedures during his own involvement in the trial of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.
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Then Katie and Company (downstream media) will do tons of stories of the disorder and give statistics that 'support' their stories that men in their older middle aged years lend themselves to be 'victims' of this disorder.
FIVE times is not an accident.
It's him, isn't it?
I would like to get the video of that...
It was one of SNL's best and applies to all the rats like a tee.
This should be the biggest news of the year!!!
UN-friggin-BELIEVable!!!!
Never happen....and I'll bet you $10.00 on it.
FRegards,
I haven't showered yet, so I'll go over there and check it out. Can only take so much, though!
Surely, these documents are all on "microfilm" or some back up source.
I would, but the server here blocks the DUmmy web site. Too much hate speech.
FRegards,
Just as Katie did all those stories on sexual harrassment during Clinton, exactly ZERO!
I'm glad to see that Drudge still has this as his top story.
Somebody pull out Joe Wilson's fantasy of seeing Karl Rove being frog walked out of the White House in handcuffs, and see if we can dream up equally delightful visions for Sandy 'Traitor' Berger and Joe.
I get up for work at 5am, and I heard about this than as a Fox News alert. Nobody at work (27 other people) had heard anything about it yet. I hope it was just too early, and not that it's being ignored by other media. BTW, I am having a great day, and can only guess it's because this news was good for a change....a RAT finally got caught with his PANTS DOWN.
We need some new Necked Abu Grabe photos pronto!
| Mr. Breuer said removing those notes was a violation of National Archives policy, and that Mr. Berger regretted the action. "He knew it was a technical violation, and he admits that it was an error in judgment." But according to New York civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby, Berger's decision to remove his notes wasn't just a "technical violation." "You're not permitted to remove anything from that room - period," he said Tuesday morning. "And that means even your notes. If you're taking notes about classified information, those notes are now classified. They're placed in a secure area. You can have access to them only while being viewed by a security officer. Nothing gets removed."
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