Not if the memos were of different revisions.
Exactly! It's not clear that other copies of every draft are available. Also, it's not even clear how many actually unique revisions of the documents existed. Someone might have changed content within the document but not changed the cover pages or date so as to conceal the fact that changes had been made. Presumably neither the archivists or anyone else had done a line-by-line comparison of each draft, but Berger made have ascertained via multiple visits to the archives and he may have known which copies were where. He had time to look around and confer with associates about who had which versions. So he may have gone back to the archives to get specific documents after ascertaining which specific documents were still around.
Political pressure might have been brought to bear to expunge sensitive information from earlier drafts. Berger would know that, and he would also know that he could get in a lot of trouble for stealing the documents from the archives. But he did it anyway. Berger was caught with a smoking gun.
I also read that he put some documents in a leather briefcase besides hiding some in his clothing. He calls this being sloppy! I call it treason.
Slick made a CYA statement today on Fox saying that on the way over - he was laughing about this. He said that anyone who knows Berger and has been to his office always finds him under his papers.
Slick's statement says a lot about the kind of person he picked for a national security position. One thing for sure is that the Slick crowd can be counted on to do whatever it takes to decieve and connive to keep from going to prison.
Berger was caught stuffing "hand written notes" into his pants/socks/jacket.
What is not made clear is if these were his own notes or was he stealing the comment notes made by others that were attached to the documents during their circulation.
He also stole entire documents, maybe because they had been commented in the body of the work instead of by attachment.
This makes sense to me, he appears to have been sanitizing the report by stripping out anything derogotary to the clinton regime.