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Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents (under a construction trailer)
Associated Press ^ | Dec 20, 2006 | LARRY MARGASAK

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.


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To: Mr. Mojo
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.

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?????

341 posted on 12/21/2006 6:09:39 PM PST by ErieGeno
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To: AmericaUnited
I would suggest the chair...

The classical punishment for this sort of thing involves a rope.

342 posted on 12/21/2006 6:11:40 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ErieGeno
One big happy family, scratching each others' backs.

....although the scatching does appear to be a bit one-sided.

343 posted on 12/21/2006 6:13:57 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

"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?


344 posted on 12/21/2006 6:33:01 PM PST by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: Grampa Dave
One can only imagine what would happen to anyone on your ping list if they did what this traitor did.

15-20 in Leavenworth.....for each count.

The damage that has been done and still occurs is frightening. Both of the Clintons are shameless grifters and as dangerous as the Russian mafia. I wonder if the courts and prosecutors in the Berger case were lenient believing they were saving his life.
345 posted on 12/21/2006 6:38:13 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhauling is a sensible solution to mutiny.)
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To: kellynla

Get a rope....


346 posted on 12/21/2006 6:52:02 PM PST by JRjr (hMMM?)
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To: kellynla
...Fat Sandy Burglar is covered by the Clinton "J. Edgar Hoover" insurance policy.

Maybe by the Clinton "Vince Foster" insurance policy?

347 posted on 12/21/2006 7:16:46 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Txsleuth; marcosdouglas77
He sure is Tx. He is a troll.

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348 posted on 12/21/2006 7:32:40 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

Thanks for letting me know...

He freepmailed me twice today...I guess accusing me of not caring about the FAA and 9/11...?????


349 posted on 12/21/2006 7:43:22 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bolton/Cheney (that would be Lynne) 08)
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To: Txsleuth

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.


350 posted on 12/21/2006 7:46:35 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

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.


351 posted on 12/21/2006 7:48:22 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bolton/Cheney (that would be Lynne) 08)
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To: Txsleuth

maybe we should inform the mods


352 posted on 12/21/2006 7:49:57 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware

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?


353 posted on 12/21/2006 7:52:28 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bolton/Cheney (that would be Lynne) 08)
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To: Txsleuth
check out this post from another thread.

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

354 posted on 12/21/2006 7:52:35 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: Txsleuth
I checked his record in the forum only posted about 5 times but sent private freep mail to at least three people I know of, and none of them solicited.
355 posted on 12/21/2006 7:54:03 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: Txsleuth; supremedoctrine
Hope you do not mind me sharing this with Tx, but he was sent a private freep mail too.

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

356 posted on 12/21/2006 7:57:15 PM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: mware; Admin Moderator

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.


357 posted on 12/21/2006 8:01:48 PM PST by Txsleuth (Bolton/Cheney (that would be Lynne) 08)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I'd like some flies with that Berger.


358 posted on 12/21/2006 8:01:52 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: oceanview

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


359 posted on 12/21/2006 8:15:02 PM PST by AmeriBrit
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To: mware

"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?


360 posted on 12/21/2006 8:18:37 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now (Beware Marxist propagandists who undermine the U.S. Patriot Act and Your Security)
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