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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Kerry campaign advisor Sandy Berger inadvertently 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.
If not, how can the media continue to allow that word in the same paragraph with anything flowing out of the Dems spin machine?
I had that once, had to have a massive dose of penicillin
What did kerry know ? When did he know it ?
1. Getting stuff for Kerry.
2. Getting stuff for his next book.
3. Trying to hide stuff from the 9/11 Commission.
4. Just preping for his 9/11 Commission exam.
5. Selling documents to bin Laden.
6. Short on toilet paper at home.
Something just doesn't feel right about this. He had to have known that he was being watched. It's almost like he went back until he was finally caught. Call me a cynic, but if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. This was just Waaaay too easy. What are they up to????? Maybe the Bush Admin. is spooked too. hmmmmm.
LOL!
I believe I've read that the archive believes it has copies of the docs. I haven't been able to follow this as closely as I'd like to today. I sure hope so.
Prairie
Listening to CBS radio this evening a spokesperson for the DNC stated that this was at most a "third rate burglary". The Spinning Wheel has begun.
...the timing of the 'leak'...
Other than on Fox news, that will be the story...how the Bush people are trying to detract from Kerry. Imagine how the headlines would be different if it was Condi Rice ...
Guess, it just depends on what the definition of sloppy is..get out Bill's dictionary.
There is a lot more to this than we're hearing. I would give a week's pay to know what the Dims have and what they were going to do with it. It's a cinch that they were going to use it to hurt Bush.
This is worse that Watergate. The Dims were dealing in secret, classified government documents not piddly political stuff.
FGS, this is an outrage! In his socks? And David Gergen goes on the Today Show and says the timing of the leak smells?
bttt
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