JURY PROBES EX-BILL AIDE'S 'SOCKS DOCS'-FOX News has confirmed the grand jury investigation

New York Post ^ | 1/11/05 | DEBORAH ORIN

[kattracks]

anuary 11, 2005 -- EXCLUSIVE

WASHINGTON — 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.

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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."

[mainepatsfan]

I'm sure Today and GMA will be all over this story as well. /sarcasm

[demlosers]

Nice coversheet.

[George W. Bush]

The Clinton interregnum, was the most vile and evil America has ever seen.

Not really. Merely among the worst.

If you read history beyond that claptrap they shovel out in the public schools, it's not hard to find four or five other presidencies as bad or even worse, at least judged by the modern perspective.

I think it would be fair to say Clinton's was the worst in the 20^th century or in living memory.

I think history's verdict of Clinton will be one of mediocrity, vanity, and dereliction of his basic duties which ultimately accelerated the South's realignment to the GOP and the consequent decline of the Democrats as a viable national party.

Clinton was actually the gravedigger for the burial of the national Democrat party, his presidency marking the final decadence of a discredited and outdated political philosophy and approach to government.

[demkicker]

I assumed they'd let Berger skate on this one and have been irrate since it happened. Guess I'll never get used to the speed of the wheels of justice when it comes to democrats.

[CanadianBloodAmericanHeart]

HEY ALL YOU!!!! Didn't you hear the MSM when they told you it was 'only sloppiness' on Sandy Burglar's part???? Imagine if Condi had done it.

[KarlInOhio]

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I guess I didn't have the proper clearance to even see the page. :-)

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[Liberty Valance]

This is encouraging news. Justice may be slow but it won't be denied.

[NonValueAdded]

"The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow, but exceedingly fine." And Sandy Burglar is a pretty big one to grind up!

[Quilla]

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil, patently evil.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Finally, we're getting some action on this crime.

[Liz]

.......legs aren't bad, but that face....yuck.....LOL....

[prairiebreeze]

Thanks for the ping. I'm glad to hear it too, Fox is giving it a lot of coverage this morning, but CNN probably gave it 10 seconds at 3 AM and then dropped it.

[demlosers]

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."

The sanitation mission for Bill and Hillary.

[windchime]

Good....thanks!

[AppyPappy]

Rosemary Woods....white courtesy phone

[Beckwith]

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Corrected link to classified documents cover pages

THis one works, I dropped the "l" on the html.

[Liz]

.....history's verdict of Clinton will be one of mediocrity, vanity, and dereliction of his basic duties...... the gravedigger for the burial of the national Democrat party, his presidency marking the final decadence of a discredited and outdated political philosophy and approach to government.....

Okay, no problem. I'll accept that.

[Soul Seeker]

"It may have been off the front pages, but the investigation has been active," said a source with knowledge of the probe.

Impossible. I thought that Ashcroft & Bush were just going to let him walk? [sarcasm[/]

[basque]

Top Secret cover should be yellow in color. Red is Secret.