To me, this smacks of Hillary and the FBI files. Everyone is focused on the likelihood that Berger stole documents that make the Clinton adminstration look bad. That is probably true. But a second, and no less important motive, might have been to dig RADIOACTIVE DIRT on other Washington insiders who dropped the ball on terrorism.
If you think the FBI files allowed Hillary and co. to extort people, just imagine what this kind of information would allow them to do.