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Posted on 07/20/2004 11:30:49 AM PDT by ncfool
7/20/2004 12:54:00 PM
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To: National Desk
Contact: John Feehery or Pete Jeffries, 202-225-2800, both of the Office of House Speaker Dennis Hastert
WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) released the following statement regarding allegations that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger removed highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room during preparations for the 9/11 Commission hearings:
"I am profoundly troubled by allegations that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger removed highly classified documents from the National Archives regarding the Clinton Administration's handling of terrorist attacks prior to the September 11th attacks.
"What could those documents have said that drove Mr. Berger to remove them without authorization from a secure reading room for classified documents?
"What information could be so embarrassing that a man with decades of experience in handling classified documents would risk being caught pilfering our nation's most sensitive secrets?
"Did these documents detail simple negligence or did they contain something more sinister? Was this a bungled attempt to rewrite history and keep critical information from the 9/11 Commission and potentially put their report under a cloud?
"It is my understanding that Mr. Berger shoved this classified information into his clothing to smuggle them out of the National Archives. 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.
"Mr. Berger has a lot of explaining to do. He was given access to these documents to assist the 9/11 Commission, not hide information from them. The American people and the 9/11 families don't want cover-ups when it comes to the War on Terror. They want the truth. And so does the U.S. House of Representatives."
http://www.usnewswire.com/
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heheh.. Get em Dennis.
Nicely stated...
There have to be surveillance videos. Let there be videos.
Instead of being "profoundly troubled" Hastert should be demanding Ashcroft open an investigation.
I demand a congressional investigation and a special prosecutor. These are vey series charges and must be answerved.
He is a gentleman and not like Tom Daschle
My first question to Berger is why?
Were you going to destroy them or alter them?
What are yo utrying to hide, Berger?
Keep hammering this for the next two weeks and obscure the RAT conclave.
I'm starting to wonder if any copies ended up in the hands of John Kerrys nameless foreign friends.
Better yet, let there be copies.
True, "Skeletor" Pelosi should be asking herself.
BTTT
No Senator, he!
"Well now, who's ready for lunch?"
Exactly. Well said.
Denny's got reelection pork to hand out (and consume); he can't be troubled with investigations.
In the words of Helmethair Lott: "Don't dump this garbage on me!"
I hear you - I don't know what it is with this administration. They have been so reluctant to do anything to tarnish the Clinton administration.
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