I agree, but as members on the Senate Intel committee, the Democrats (perhaps even Kerry himself) could have viewed this document at their leisure. So it makes little sense that he would pass those along (at most he would have made his own copies, passed along those copies, and returned the official docs).
...And Berger wouldn't have stolen 5 copies (yes, he returned 2 copies) in order to give to 5 other people; he would have stolen 1 version and made 4 more copies at Kinkos.
Why steal 5 copies of the same document? Because each copy had unique handwritten notes from different intel analysts.
3 of those copies/notes were apparently dynamite, too. He risked jail and his career to destroy them.
Certainly the Corrupt Old Media isn't asking him about those three docs (i.e. why he destroyed them and not the others).
But here's the smoking gun: we know the *analysts* who wrote the different notes on each of those 3 destroyed copies, so we know what Sandy was trying to hide.
It might not become public, but we know his game. We know what the Clinton Administration wanted covered up from the intel analysis of the Clarke Report on Al Qaeda. Clearly, 3 different intel analysts noted on their copies of that doc a connection that was political poison for Democrats, regarding Al Qaeda anti-terrorism efforts.
...And Berger risked jail and his career to prevent the 9/11 commission from putting that connection into its book.