I wouldn't rule out the former hypothesis.
Does anyone know for sure that Berger was NOT on Saddam's payroll, or Osama's, or Beijing's ?
Speaking of which, why were no Iraqi spies in the US government ever found and arrested after Saddam was booted? He had the money (Oil-for-Food embezzlement), he had the opportunity (12 years), and he had the motive. Do you really believe that for the 12 years that we were the biggest threat to his well-being and continued power, he never bothered to recruit spies inside the US Government?
And if he DID recruit spies inside the US government, surely we got all the info on them when we occupied the Iraqi Intelligence Services Offices after the war, and analyzed the documents, the records, the computer files. So how come there's never been a mention of arresting any spies who worked for Saddam?
My suspicion is that it's because we've been watching them, to see who else was in on the conspiracy to commit treason.
Time will tell whether or not Sandy Berger is Saddam's "Kim Philby"......
That's all a little too "tin foil hat" for my tastes. I really think Berger was just trying to protect his reputation and that of the clintoons.
They thoroughly messed up on protecting us from terrorists, and if the general public knew, they'd be toast (as would most Dems).
These people are not complicated. They don't have any agenda other than personal power.
Let's not speculate on this.
Berger took the docs. That is proven. He stuffed them in his socks according to eyewitnesses, though he denies it. He did this on several different occasions, not once like he claims. The commission, meticulous in its protection of its documents, can't find an essential document that the Clinton people referred to (obviously they would not refer to a non-existent document). But, now it is gone.
Postulation: Berger may have taken this doc as well, but we do not know for certain.
Let's try to stick to the matter at hand. Wild speculation that Berger is somehow in league with Saddam or something is insane IMO....there is no evidence so far of this. Let's try to stay respectable on this so we can keep the story going instead of letting it die with wild conspiracy theories without evidence.