Posted on 07/21/2004 9:25:10 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.
What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.
After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case.
The notion of one of Washington's most respected foreign policy figures being subjected to treatment that had at least a faint odor of a sting operation is a strange one. But the peculiarities -- and conflicting versions of events and possible motives -- were just then beginning in a case that this week bucked Berger out of an esteemed position as a leader of the Democratic government-in-waiting that had assembled around presidential nominee John F. Kerry.
As his attorneys tell it, Berger had no idea in October that documents were missing from the Archives, or that archivists suspected him in the disappearance. It was not until two days later, on Saturday, Oct. 4, that he was contacted by Archives employees who said that they were concerned about missing files, from his September and October visits. This call -- in Berger's version of the chronology, which is disputed in essential respects by a government official with knowledge of the investigation -- was made with a tone of concern, but not accusation.
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Right, and since the conference (see Post 169 above) was at the end of October 2003, that means that Berger, the MoveOn people, and/or the Clinton people must have been in communication at about the time Berger was commiting his crimes.
Good Summary Bump. The Press needs to do its job and report the details correctly on this.
I've been trying for a couple of days to find out about where code word classified documents are stored, but have had no luck at www.nara.gov.
Thanks.
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Excellent point.
re the question why did Berger do this?
#1 To ingratiate himself with the Dem candidate.
#2 How many files do you think the Clinton's have on him???
(remember Chinagate)
It has been reported elswhere that Berger was allowed the irregular courtesy of taking a portfolio in with him.....
What a typical democrat elitist statement. No acknowledgment of the fact that Berger ruined his own reputation by his own actions - but points blame at Republicans because they "dare" to mention it in public.
What idiots would want to vote for such people that consider themselves above the law. The law is deemed only for the little people (that vote) and all conservatives - not the leadership of the democrat party. So - they are a bunch of crooks - pure and simple and definitely unworthy of being handed our country to lead.
I have NO idea. My mind doesn't work this way.
Mr. Maloney comes to Kiodex directly from the White House, where he was the youngest person ever to serve as assistant to the President and staff secretary -- one of the most senior and sensitive White House positions, involving direct, daily access to President Clinton. As staff secretary (a position formerly held by current White House chief of staff John Podesta and former Reagan/Bush adviser Richard Darman), Maloney managed the decision-making process in the West Wing; held exclusive authority to execute decisions on the Presidents behalf; oversaw a staff of more than 100 employees; and was the Oval Office gatekeeper of all material going to and from the President, including all national security information, domestic policy briefing and decision memos, appointments, executive orders, and legislation.
Thanks, rolling ...
Or maybe Berger had a contract to do a backgrounder report for MoveOn. We see Berger speaking at a MoveOn conference on October 28, 2003. I wonder how much he was paid for that.
I wonder if he was one of the ones who never got vetted.
Yes - maybe. If they do - the answer is simple. What difference does it make WHEN it hits the public? The fact that it happened and security was violated is the point.
Do we ask WHEN we can publicly talk about the corruption, lying, cheating, stealing of the democrats?
Apparently they don't care about the security of classified materials - they only care about WHEN it hits the public.
I still say if it was good for us, we'd have "leaked" it next Wednesday.
And just WHAT was all that noise about President Bush having people from the Regan and Bush the elder administrations working for him?
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