Inspector General Says Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger Hid Classified Docs

FNC ^ | December 21, 2006

[Kaslin]

WASHINGTON — President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday.

The report was issued more than a year after Sandy Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removing the documents.

Berger took the documents in the fall of 2003 while working to prepare himself and Clinton administration witnesses for testimony to the Sept. 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration's representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials.

Berger's lawyer, Lanny Breuer, said in a statement that the contents of all the documents exist today and were made available to the commission.

But Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said he's not convinced that the Archives can account for all the documents taken by Berger. Davis said working papers of National Security Council staff members are not inventoried by the Archives.

[Unicorn]

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[txhurl]

Someone here on FR speculated with good sources that the real memo Klinton wanted taken out of the NAs was the one referencing Sudan's (and Pakistan's?) offer to cough up OBL and him scribbling in the margin 'not something I want to do' or something to that effect.

[gotribe]

Thanks. I'll read that over the holidays. Figures that the CIA would be involved - it's one of the few places you can bury and make lots of money and not have your activities tracked. Makes sense that the most powerful men in America would be up to their eyeballs there - they're power mongers, so how could they resist.

[gotribe]

You're right. Two parties = collusion and corruption. But I think there must be more to it than that, maybe I'm just cynical and paranoid.

[malia]

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