Posted on 03/31/2005 5:06:41 PM PST by BurbankKarl
WASHINGTON - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra.
The former Clinton administration official previously acknowledged he removed from the National Archives copies of documents about the government's anti-terror efforts and notes that he took on those documents. He said he was reviewing the materials to help determine which Clinton administration documents to provide to the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
He called the episode "an honest mistake," and denied criminal wrongdoing.
Berger and his lawyer, Lanny Breuer, have said Berger knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket and pants and inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio. He returned most of the documents, but some still are missing.
The charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
The materials related to a 2000 report on how government reacted to the terror threat prior to the millennium celebrations.
Berger stepped down as an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign last July after The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department was investigating the matter.
Many Democrats, including former President Clinton, suggested politics were behind disclosure of the probe only days before the release of the Sept. 11 commission report, which Republicans feared would be a blow to President Bush's re-election campaign.
He called the episode "an honest mistake," and denied criminal wrongdoing.
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Sure, Sandy, I guess it all depends on your meaning of the word "mistake". Typical Clintonian lying and obstruction
What about the socks?!?!?!??!?!?!
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This was about Berger calling off the raid to kill Bin Laden over collateral damage of fifty wives and children?
Well good grief- what took soooooooooooooooo long? Been wondering about what was going on with this...
Socks has been living with Betty Currie since he left the White House.
We could do a whole lot better, but given that a lot of us thought this whole thing had faded away, even one day with his roomie Bubba is OK.
Let him keep his money and send his ass to jail. And like he would actually pay the $100,000 out of his own pocket.
Excuse me, but Burgerthefter is saying that he stuffed papers in his socks and was ONLY deciding which papers to turn over to the 9-11 Ccmmission. This is really laughable.
A friggin sham.........JUSTICE once again denied.
Yet another victim of Clintonization. Step in line, Sandy. Join all the rest of the sycophants who believed in this joke of a president. They all manage to take punishment, yet Clinton and his awful wife just keep sailing on.
**** Sure, Sandy, I guess it all depends on your meaning of the word "mistake".
To say nothing about the word "honest."
> The charge of unauthorized removal and retention of
> classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a
> maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a
> $100,000 fine.
I presume there's no word yet on the sentence in this case.
I also presume that Bergler copped a plea because the Gov
had a solid case on much heavier charges.
I do question the timing, however. Is is just a coincidence
that this announcement went out hours after the media
began drowing in Schiavo news?
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Who is stupider. Pick One (1)
1) The Israelis trusting the Palestinians and Islam
2) Terri Shiavo's supporters trusting Judgenfuhrer Greer and the Florida Judiciary
3) Americans waiting for the US Justice Dept to catch and deliver justice to
a) She/he who admitted to stealing 950 FBI files
b) Whitey Bulger
c) Sandy Berger-Burglar
"WELCOME TO THE REAL AMERICA WHERE CRIMINALS GET TO BE
CELEBRITIES AND CELEBRITIES GET AWAY WITH MURDER."
Yep - those two have reinvented Teflon....and the left just keeps sucking it up. I suppose we are a nation of idiots.
A maximum sentence of a year. I'll bet he never does time. Home release program or something.
They're probably with Hillary's missing billing records.
Or possibly the missing FBI files?
Who hired Craig Livingstone!?
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