The 9/11 Commission completed its report under conditions that dictated that members couldn't question Berger about the theft of classified records they had requested of the Archives, without reopening the hearing. This, after it relied on his testimony. (This fact would have certainly affected his credibility.)
It was leaked after Clinton testified in Berger’s and in yet another Clinton spin doctor’s presence, Bruce Lindsey's. Those were the only two men we are certain knew of the investigation at that time.
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Bruce R. Lindsey, who serves as former president Bill Clinton's liaison to the Archives, said he was not alerted to concerns about missing documents until two days after Berger's Oct. 2 visit. Berger was notified that day, and he searched his office for the missing papers. A government source claiming knowledge of the investigation said Archives officials alerted Lindsey to concerns after a visit by Berger in September.
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Sandy Berger has been the subject of a criminal probe since October. Former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova notes that the length of this probe against the understanding that Berger has not yet been interviewed by the FBI indicates a potentially serious charge.
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Byron York reports that Berger took multiple copies of 15-to-30-page reports on two occasions. Pants and socks.
John Kerry (search) appeared to score points in Thursday’s debate by mentioning the thousands of hours of recordings of Arabic terror suspects that sit useless on FBI (search) shelves because we have so few Arabic translators.
What Sen. Kerry did not mention is that the FBI warned of this in the Clinton administration, which did nothing to alleviate the shortage.
Former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke passed the warnings about translators to Clinton officials after the nation narrowly escaped a major terror attack in 2000. The Clinton official in charge of processing these warnings was National Security Adviser Sandy Berger (search). The warnings were among the documents that Mr. Berger removed from the National Archives earlier this year.
As the New York Post reported in July: "Urgent complaints that the FBI could not decipher bugged conversations between members of a Brooklyn mosque and Afghan terrorists because it lacked translators were included in the documents former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger removed from the National Archives."
For the record, Mr. Berger left the Kerry campaign in July after saying that his removal of the archival material was an honest mistake.
And that’s the Observer.
Sandy Berger has been the subject of a criminal probe since October. Former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova notes that the length of this probe against the understanding that Berger has not yet been interviewed by the FBI indicates a potentially serious charge.
Fox plays a clip of Berger's statement from months ago admitting taking the documents (and saying it was a mistake).
Orin on F & F now. She says the evidence has been being presented to a grand jury and is alive. She informs the tv audience of Lindsey's appearance yesterday.
Orin points out it's illegal to take away documents and the clip Fox just played admits it right there.
Orin discussing how he destroyed some documents.