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So, would that also mean that any data collected by Able Danger would be received by the National Archives regardless of whether it was overwritten or erased later from the computers of the Able Danger group after they operation was shut down?

As I have also heard, the copies retrieved by Sandy Berger would not have been the originals, only reading copies. So was Sandy Berger from the generation before computers were an everyday part of a kids life, probably yes and that could mean he was unaware they were only copies and so the story goes, he stuffed them down his pants.

The 911 Commission which had already decided to smother the Able Danger information which was embarrassing to Gorelick who was on the 911 Commission as an obstructionist for the Clinton's would not have cared what Berger did or what was lost believing it was all according to plan.

I think it has established that they documents Sandy Berger took were from meetings that he personally attended. The sheer volume of the Able Danger documents was HUGE, there is no possible way he could remove them. However, it is quite possible that he removed documents that dealt with discussions he had with Clinton or others about Able Danger. Essentially, he could have been trying to create plausible deniability about the administration's direct knowledge of Able Danger.

"So, would that also mean that any data collected by Able Danger would be received by the National Archives regardless of whether it was overwritten or erased later from the computers of the Able Danger group after they operation was shut down?"

In my opinion NOTHING FROM AB would ever go into the NA. AB was an operation inside the Defense Intellegience Agency.
Lct Schaffer was a major in the the Department of Defense, who most likely had a desk in the Pentagon. AB operation was conducted out of Tampa Fl., most probably in a building at CENTCOM. The good major acted as a liason officer between the DoD and the DIA AD operation. It is hard for me to see how anything coming out of a top secret military intellegience operation would find itself being placed into the National Archive. What sense would be in doin that?
I can see mention/reference to DIA work in the NA, in documents. But to store it's work sounds a bit ridiculus. No different then if the CIA stored top secret work at the NA.
If anyone with a sufficient need to know level clearance needed info regarding something in the DIA AD group, then they would have gone to the DIA and taken the proper route to talk with someone. Guess that's my two cents on this.

As I have also heard, the copies retrieved by Sandy Berger would not have been the originals, only reading copies. So was Sandy Berger from the generation before computers were an everyday part of a kids life, probably yes and that could mean he was unaware they were only copies and so the story goes, he stuffed them down his pants.