Posted on 12/20/2006 2:12:49 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday. The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.
Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he said it was possible he threw them in his office trash.
The report said that when Archives employees first suspected that Berger _ who had been President Clinton's national security adviser _ was removing classified documents from the Archives in the fall of they failed to notify any law enforcement agency.
Berger, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents, was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.
The report said that when Berger was reviewing the classified documents in the Archives building a few blocks from the Capitol, employees saw him bending down and fiddling with something white, which could have been paper, around his ankle.
However, Archives employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger's stature, the report said.
Brachfeld reported that on one visit, Berger took a break to go outside without an escort.
"In total, during this visit, he removed four documents ... .
"Mr. Berger said he placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)."
Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.
Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton, was reviewing National Security Council documents on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Sudan, and related presidential correspondence. The review was to facilitate Berger's impending testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees.
Repeat----Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton was reviewing .......
Is this the same former President Clinton who is now buds with former President Bush who is the father of the current President Bush who oversees the Justice Department that would have sent Berger, and possibly Clinton, to jail????
Must be nice to be on the inside while being outside of the law?????
The classical punishment for this sort of thing involves a rope.
....although the scatching does appear to be a bit one-sided.
"Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton, was reviewing National Security Council documents on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida,...."
So, Ex-Presidents have authority to grant regarding NSA documents?
Get a rope....
Maybe by the Clinton "Vince Foster" insurance policy?
Thanks for letting me know...
He freepmailed me twice today...I guess accusing me of not caring about the FAA and 9/11...?????
He freep mailed me too, and another freeper who saw my post accusing him of being a troll sent me a private message saying they got mailed too.
He is definitely a noob..and a trouble maker.
I am very leery of anyone who freepmails me out of the blue, who I have never seen before.
maybe we should inform the mods
LOL...I have never hit abuse...or notified the mods.
I guess I assume that they are watching..and just take care of trolls...NO?
U.S. forces 'losing' in Iraq, Powell says (gag alert)
Posted by marcosdouglas77 to Radix
On News/Activism 12/17/2006 9:09:01 PM PST · 72 of 159
Let's listen to him. We criticized the ISG for not having any military background. Let's be consistent.
Oh yeah we got us a troll for sure
Tex, this is what he sent supreme,,,,,his "tone" implied he thought I was some kind of hypocrite for being aware of Sandy Berger but not the FAA----whereupon he sends me a private reply that says "of COURSE you're not aware of it, because this is a rightwing blog and you guys are only interested in Democrat wrongdoing
Ah...okay, he didn't get that "descriptive" to me...
He only said I probably didn't get mad at the FAA like I am at Sandy Berger....
I just asked him what his point was...
When he freepmailed me back, he said that all of the Freepers on the FAA thread seemed to think that was okay.
I told him I wouldn't know, I would have to take his word for it..since I don't remember even going on that thread.
Accusations to ME...and I am guessing a LOT of freepers..I am guessing a DU operative just trying to make trouble.
I'd like some flies with that Berger.
There's a lot in this thread about him using his camera/phone.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1176109/posts?q=1&&page=201
"How the hell could they give him such as light sentence when he admitted that he stashed the documents and retrieved them later."
Because he was just trying to practice paper recycling?
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