His legacy is already down the toilet so he hasn't much to lose.
The tipoff will be if and how often the press mentions Berger's ties to the Kerry campaign. Never count them out.
Press reports indicate that Archival staff became concerned when documents began to disappear and specifically marked additional documents to track them. A number of those documents also turned up missing.
The statement from Berger and his attorney yesterday left the dintinct impression that it was a one-time situation. Clearly it was not. Yet that false impression was reinforced by Gergen this morning.
The truth is that Berger went back to the archives several times. Enough documents disappeared that it caught the notice of the staff. A sting operation was set up using marked documents. Even "a number" of those documents disappeared.
There's something very deep and disturbing about all this. Something more than the usual scenarios many of us conjure up when Clinton's involved. I hate to speculate ahead of knowing so few facts, but alarm bells are going off in my very bones, so to speak.
Not speculating here, but I do think it's reasonable to ask this devastating question: Is it possible that a President of the United States knew something like 9/11 was coming, and that he and members of his national security team KEPT THAT KNOWLEDGE FROM THE INCOMING BUSH ADMINISTRATION?
The very fact that Berger's actions can lead to such a devastating, but honest question, just screams out the reasons why this time we simply cannot let this story die a premature death. We have to know the truth, because terrorism in the modern era can be even deadlier than a hundred 9/11's given the right set of circumstances.