Posted on 07/21/2004 9:25:10 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.
What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.
After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case.
The notion of one of Washington's most respected foreign policy figures being subjected to treatment that had at least a faint odor of a sting operation is a strange one. But the peculiarities -- and conflicting versions of events and possible motives -- were just then beginning in a case that this week bucked Berger out of an esteemed position as a leader of the Democratic government-in-waiting that had assembled around presidential nominee John F. Kerry.
As his attorneys tell it, Berger had no idea in October that documents were missing from the Archives, or that archivists suspected him in the disappearance. It was not until two days later, on Saturday, Oct. 4, that he was contacted by Archives employees who said that they were concerned about missing files, from his September and October visits. This call -- in Berger's version of the chronology, which is disputed in essential respects by a government official with knowledge of the investigation -- was made with a tone of concern, but not accusation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Anytime the Post can stick it to the NY Times, they work tirelessly to do so.
He didn't have a clue nor did he have time to take a briefing on a terrorist threat because he was too "busy."
God I hope the RNC is paying attention. Good campaigning material.
Only because it took OBL a little longer to get his ducks in a row.
Nah, he just stole all the draft copies with comments and revisions and destroyed them.
Susan Schmidt of the Wash Post has now written two stories asserting that Berger took ALL of the draft copies.
bttt
Bubba Clinton has formal statutory authority over the papers.
Lindsey - as Clinton's designated attorney in this matter - would have been the point man in obtaining the necessary waivers for Berger to examine the docs.
There was a formal procedure undertaken to allow Berger into the Archives, and it seems likely that Lindsey was the legal interface (between the Archives and Berger) in executing the paperwork, defining the scope of the review, the dates and times of review, etc.
I don't see any issue with Archives calling Lindsey first, he would have been the legal pointman from the Archive's point-of-view.
Thanks...that clears that issue up for me.
Has the DOJ issued an indictment yet? No!
How much time has elapsed since Berger is allegedly to have stolen classified materials? 9, nearly 10 months!
It is pathetic that the law has to be enforced by the media and congressional committees and not the DOJ as intended?
Could that "someone" be Richard Clarke?
I agree. It's time for the Republicans to take advantage of the "special prosecutor" law that the Democrats were good enough to establish. It'll be fun to listen to the Democrats whine like they did during the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandal.
If Condi had done this, Sandy would be screaming to the heavens about how it was a SERIOUS SECURITY LAPSE, and that she was well aware of the rules.
I hope he falls hard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176256/posts
Link to Kerry Web Site: Pages appear to have dropped over the Berger Incident.
You know, I sat there after hearing Kerry and thought long and hard about how it did not seem to be an "answer". Not a clue was his answer both times, but he never actually said "no".
oooooo, that sound very interesting.
It's all about the timing! It's obviously political! Oh, yeah, and the timings of Moore's movie and the 911 comission report release were entirely coincidential--shame on you for suggesting Moore or the 911 comission have any political motives in their blemishless hearts.
Well that info will come out sooner or later
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