Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents (under a construction trailer)

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.

"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.

No problem---I was going to private reply the idiot, but after seeing this and seeing that others also got "solicited" and replied, I will not bother. The really stupid part of it is I asked him to explain what in fact HE made of the FAA destruction of the tape, saying that to me the best case scenario I could put on it was that it was a CYA move by the Air Traffic Controllers Union , or whatever union was in charge, in order to minimize whatever damage would fall on them if the tapes showed a less than professional demeanour by the controllers, sort of like the emergency calls (ironically also "911") we've all heard on TV news that are not taken seriously by the emerg. operators, and usually result in ambulances getting there too late to save people/ He didn't reply to me, or offer any explanations of his own. Just the eminently STUPID one of assuming that this highly suspicious scandal was NOT Democrat-based, but was by default something that "rightwingers" were responsible for. So he is stupid and irrelevant on probably ALL counts.

The EXPLANATION: Sandy Berger is covering up Bill Clinton’s GREATEST CRIME
Free Republic | 7-2-0-04 | Bill Charleston

Posted on 07/20/2004 7:44:02 PM PDT by BILL_C

What do some of the craziest events in recent American History all have in common? No, this is not another Blue Dress story, but it is about the biggest crime Bill Clinton committed as president. It was such a small political lie for him but it turned out to have incredible ramifications to our country. Slick Willy may be headed for the title of worst president in United States history, in fact, he might even qualify for the biggest traitor label.

And further more, you don’t even suspect it happened.

Just what was Sandy Berger doing stuffing documents into his clothes while preparing for the 9-11 hearings? Lanny Davis was on natioal news earlier today saying that the leak right before the Democratic Convention just had to be politically motivated.

Did you ever wonder how literally hundreds of witnesses could see a mass murder but the official report not only ignores these citizens but offers solutions that are physically impossible? Conclusions such as this are possible whenever the conspiracy label is attached. And what was all the fuss about Jamie Gorelick being on the 9-11commission? Why did we get bored seeing Richard Clark attacking President Bush in the 9-11 hearings? If you’re one of Bill Clinton’s boys or girls that was in his inner circle, the noose is tightening.

They know what happened but you don’t know, not yet.

In 1994, Bill Clinton was shocked at the Republican massacre in the congressional election. His chances of reelection seemed dim. Drastic action was called for if he was going to see a second term.

The first challenge to Bill Clinton was the Federal Building bombing at Oklahoma City in 1995. As documented in Jayana Davis’ book “The Third Terrorist”, McVeigh and Nichol’s were not the only ones involved in the bombing. It seems that there were Iraqi defectors from Gulf War 1 in OKC. One of the Iraqi soldiers got out of the truck with McVeigh a few minutes before the truck bomb exploded. You may recall the story during the Nichols trial in OKC earlier this spring concerning the surveillance tape that agreed with witnesses showing two men getting out of the truck. Later, the FBI said there was no surveillance tape. This same Iraqi later moved to Boston and was working at Boston Logan Int’l airport the morning of 9-11-01. Is it a small world or was something going on here? The FBI has never investigated.

In Jayna’s book, she ties the Iraqis together with McVeigh and Nichols. Read the book and listen to her interview with Jim Quinn from Pittsburgh in the WARROOM which was aired April 20, 2004. It is in the archives. It will open your eyes.

Why did the investigation focus on two Americans when numerous witnesses testified that others were involved? And of course the initial reports detailed that two middle Eastern men were wanted? What happened?

Bill Clinton knew that if it was shown that foreign terrorists were killing Americans in Oklahoma City his chance of being reelected would vanish. Jamie Gorelick was tasked with removing middle eastern terrorists from the equation and concluding that two right wing extremists motivated by Waco were the cause, the only cause. There was no Middle Eastern conspiracy by presidential order.

Flash ahead to July, 1996 and an airplane leaving from JFK in New York City crashes off Long Island. Hundreds of witnesses see a missile shoot the plane from the sky but the investigation concludes that it was a center fuel tank explosion. Jack Cashill in his book on flight TWA 800 faces the same problem that Jayna Davis did with the Oklahoma City bombing a year earlier. WHY? Witnesses saw one thing but the investigation reported something else.

The crash of TWA 800 occurred before the Democratic convention. As in Oklahoma City, Jamie Gorelick was tasked with removing terrorism from the equation. Richard Clark supplied the center fuel tank scenario, the CIA supplied the computer simulation and Bill Clinton was home free.

Flash ahead to 9-11-01: Bill Clinton has said several times that he first thought of Bin Laden when he heard about the WTC attacks. Actually it had to be Al Qaeda, not Iraq, or his “brilliant” plan might be discovered. But Clinton was not out of the woods yet.

The 9-11 commission is tasked with finding the truth. Jamie Gorelick is on the commission to ensure they don’t. Sandy Berger while preparing to testify is caught removing classified documents by hiding them under his clothes. Anyone who has ever held a TOP SECRET clearance can relate to the sinking feeling he must have in his stomach today as the news is released.

The lies that turned to conspiracy theories led to thousands dying in NYC and Washington, DC on 9-11. Instead of Bill Clinton taking care of business in Iraq in 1995 when Iraqi defectors were caught killing Americans he covered up their involvement to get reelected. His co-conspirators are still trying to cover up the biggest lie in American history.

Now everyone will know it wasn’t an intelligence failure. It was Slick Willy all along.

I was wrong about one thing when I wrote this two years ago and that was everyone would see the obvious, Clinton covered up the fact that terrorists attacked the US in the 1990's and Clinton lied about it. 9/11 was a direct result of Clinton doing NOTHING to fight the terroists.

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