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.
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What??? You don't believe Gergen when he says Berger is a man of integrity?
The timing of your asking for his phone number is suspicious. lol
No reason to regret it. No one has been able to answer you/us whether it is possible to INSERT documents. We know you can steal them. LOL
I think it's a shell game. Do A and admit it and take the heat. It's so obvious that he's stolen the same docs over and over that there has to be a B plan we aren't seeing.
I think he's Deep Throat.
By John F. Harris and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 22, 2004; Page A06
Yup, that's right... not on page ONE!
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"I think he also feels a sense of injustice that after building a reputation as a tireless defender of his country that many Republicans would try to assassinate his character to pursue their own ends."
He's Deep something.
Let's use our common sense. If you want to hide 50-60 pages of documents on your person, how could you do it? Perhaps you could fold them in half and place them in an inside coat pocket. You could pretty easily slide them down your pants (pretty uncomfortable). It's also not hard to imagine shoving them two or three inches down into your socks which would hold the papers snugly against your calf.
The one thing you aren't going to do is try to put them in a pants pocket! Way too obvious. That's how we know he's lying.
We're at the first stage of the Watergate analogy - the security guard has noticed that the tape on the door is broken, and there is a burglar inside.
It won't truly reach Watergate proportions until it becomes a conspiracy.
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Heard on the John Batchelor radio program tonight: John Loftus claims that documents removed from the National Archives by Sandy Berger contain information about the Clinton administration's hiring members of the Arab Brotherhood (?), an organization with Nazi and Al Qaeda connections, to terrorize Serbs during Clinton's war in the Balkans.
I agree. I think the story is in the handwritten notes that were on some of the draft copies of the Millenium report, which Berger has now apparently destroyed. These notes could have been from Clinton officials, or even Clinton himself which showed Clinton's culpability for 9/11. It's not just about image management. Berger would not have committed such a serious crime for that. They are covering their guilt.
Probably they were thinking it was necessary in order to have Bush lose the election. Dirty tricks. Watergate. Sloppy break-in.
Okay, if they are missing, how could the 9-11 Commission have completed their report not knowing HOW the Clinton administration handled the information they got?
you are exactly right - all the 9/11 commission was left with were the "final" copies of the original draft and the ultimate report ... gone are all the working copies that circulated in which Clinton, Berger, et. al. would have included their own sentiments in their own writing alongside their own fingerprints ... not to mention all of the documents he stole the first time around destroyed that nobody stills know exactly what or which documents will never be seen again (and one presumes those are probably the most damning of the stolen evidence).
I agree 100 percent.
I was supposed to be page ONE!!! Bastards buried it!!!
So why didn't they call the DC police?
I agree, though I can't figure out what Plan B is. Weren't there earlier references to some middle east documents?
Another Dem spin is that there were copies of all the documents he took so he really couldn't erase the record. Is that accurate?
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