Posted on 01/11/2005 1:27:14 AM PST by kattracks
anuary 11, 2005 -- EXCLUSIVEWASHINGTON — The criminal probe into why former Bill Clinton aide Sandy Berger illegally sneaked top-secret documents out of the National Archives — possibly in his socks — has heated up and is now before a federal grand jury, The Post has learned.
The "Socks Docs" probe forced Berger, who was President Clinton's national security adviser, to step down as Democrat John Kerry's top foreign-policy adviser last summer.
"It may have been off the front pages, but the investigation has been active," said a source with knowledge of the probe.
"[Berger] has been interviewed several times by federal agents — FBI and prosecutors."
Berger admits removing 40 to 50 top-secret documents from the archives, but claims it was an "honest mistake" made while he vetted documents for the 9/11 commission's probe into the Twin Towers attacks.
Berger has also acknowledged that he destroyed some documents — he says by accident.
[snip]
The probe was touched off last spring when stunned archives staffers reported seeing Berger sneak classified documents out of a top-secret reading room in his pants and socks while vetting Clinton-era items for the commission.
They then ran a sting operation in which they coded some documents and confirmed they were missing when Berger left.
The documents were classified Code Word, the highest security classification, above Top Secret.
The commission report makes clear that Berger had a habit of writing candid notes in the margin of memos, sometimes flatly rejecting plans for action.
He nixed a plan to capture Osama bin Laden with one word: "No."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TITLE 18 PART I CHAPTER 37 Sec. 793.
Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information ... (f)Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,
(1)through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or
(2)having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
Reports I've read indicate Berger stole multiple drafts of a review of the 2000 millennium threat that----rightly or wrongly-----concluded only luck prevented a 2000 attack.
However, that conflicts with Berger's own testimony to the commission, in which he claimed that "we thwarted" millennium attacks by being vigilant — rather than by sheer luck, as the review reportedly suggests.
I'm convinced that after 911, Berger was compelled to do whatever was necessary to hide, destroy, or pilfer damaging evidence of Berger's incompetence....or perhaps his and Clinton's complicity in corrupting US national security.
No, she wasn't in Clinton's cabinet.
Once that first document leaves the table and finds its way down the reader's pants, it's not classifiable as an accident.
Berger, thank the good Lord, is no Houdini.
Looks like it (/sarc).
bttt
I see Fox News now has posted the New York Post story on their site with a note that they have confirmed the grand jury.
Berger Heist In Front of Grand Jury
[FOX News has confirmed the grand jury investigation.]
189 posted on 01/11/2005 11:45:21 AM PST by cyncooper
bttt
read through this tonight BUMP!
ping
Bumping for a later read. Thanks.
Exactly. And we know it's because he "purposefully" stole them. I'm amazed this is still being investigated, I'd thought it had been blown off. I hope they lock him up and throw away the key but I know that's wishful thinking.
And while I'm on a rant what about this paragraph:
The probe was touched off last spring when stunned archives staffers reported seeing Berger sneak classified documents out of a top-secret reading room in his pants and socks while vetting Clinton-era items for the commission.
The staffers saw him walking out with archive papers sticking out of his pants and socks and they didn't stop him? Did somebody get fired for that? Oops, I forgot, this is a government entity so nobody ever gets fired!
They did all this and failed to retain a copy of the documents they knew he was interested in stealing?
Something dosen't smell right.
at the Archives? Any dirt she knows that has not gotten in the press?
Ok, who was she working for? I give up easy.
He did it to help sKerry win the presidency. Period.
Not that I'm aware of. She's working there for her major (Library Science).
AMEN. WELL said
Tired of the left lying and accusing the right of imaginary crimes?
Kerry Trashes Bush in Baghdad Jan 05
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Kerry Meets With Syrian President Jan 05
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1316737/posts
PM SHARON MEETS WITH KERRY Jan 05
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1317636/posts
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