He stole the documents to keep the 9/11 commission from seeing the information damaging to the Clinton administration, pure and simple. He is a traitor. For this, he received the terrible punishment of not being able to have his security clearance back for three years, coincidentally, just in time for the next Democratic Presidential Administration's rule of terror.
I am incensed and highly disappointed in what I thought President Bush's administration was, and, now, has turned out not to be. Whatever W's purpose was for letting this scum go, it is a slap in the face to all of us.
The political class always takes care of its self first