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"We did not find documentation on the after-action review mentioned by Berger."

great find!!! RED ALERT! So the 9/11 O-mission was NOT provided with the "after-action review" on the 8/20/98 cruise missile bombings of Bin Laden's camp and the Sudan pharmaceutical factory???? That is HUGE! UNBELIEVABLE! That should have been one of the most fundamental documents for any review of pre-911 counter-terrorism efforts, and the doc(s) went MISSING! Think there might have been various remarks in that review about both things that were not done well and things that needed to be done in the future? This surely must be among the items which were BURGLAR-ized by Sandy Burglar in the National Archives. We were told he was only taking 'copies' of the Millenium Plot docs. We were told that they got all the docs they 'needed' but obviously that's a lie.

I was curious about the Kerrick memo...look what I found:

Clarke was nervous about such a mission because he continued to fear that Bin Ladin might leave for someplace less accessible. He wrote Deputy National Security Advisor Donald Kerrick that one reliable source reported Bin Ladin's having met with Iraqi officials, who "may have offered him asylum." Other intelligence sources said that some Taliban leaders, though not Mullah Omar, had urged Bin Ladin to go to Iraq. If Bin Ladin actually moved to Iraq, wrote Clarke, his network would be at Saddam Hussein's service, and it would be "virtually impossible" to find him. Better to get Bin Ladin in Afghanistan, Clarke declared.

Source

On November 4, 1998, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed its indictment of Bin Ladin, charging him with conspiracy to attack U.S. defense installations.The indictment also charged that al Qaeda had allied itself with Sudan, Iran, and Hezbollah.The original sealed indictment had added that al Qaeda had “reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq.” This passage led Clarke, who for years had read intelligence reports on Iraqi-Sudanese cooperation on chemical weapons, to speculate to Berger that a large Iraqi presence at chemical facilities in Khartoum was “probably a direct result of the Iraq–Al Qida agreement.” Clarke added that VX precursor traces found near al Shifa were the “exact formula used by Iraq.” This language about al Qaeda’s “understanding” with Iraq had been dropped, however, when a superseding indictment was filed in November 1998.[...]

911 Report

"46. NSC email, Clarke to Kerrick,"Timeline,"Aug. 19, 1998; Samuel Berger interview (Jan. 14, 2004).We did not find documentation on the after-action review mentioned by Berger. On Vice Chairman Joseph Ralston's mission in Pakistan, see William Cohen interview (Feb. 5, 2004). For speculation on tipping off the Taliban, see, e.g., Richard Clarke interview (Dec. 18, 2003)." FROM THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT NOTES ON CHAPTER FOUR.

Yea, sounds like the burgler was after NA stuff to cover his ass. Problem is as we all had discussed some weeks back, the NA do not hand out originals to anyone, or that at least seemed to be the consensus. He only got copies, so at best he was just trying to review all the stuff that would come back and bite him. As for Clark. Over and over again we see what an ass he was and how deceitful he truly is. CYA seems to have been the only thing these jerks learned well. Guess it goes along with the territory.