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"Otherwise whatever Berger removed, destroyed has no meaning"

The bottom line is that this essential document, even if it might still exist in the NA, was never shared in any form with the 9/11 O-mission. Maybe Burglar just got rid of 'copies' in the reading room that was assigned to the 9/11 O-mission, maybe he got rid of copies that had vital handwritten comments by various top Clintonista officials. I don't pretend to know what the method was supposed to be with Sandy Burglar, but supposedly he was reviewing docs to determine what should be provided to the 9/11 O-mission. Consider that whatever original(s) of the after-action report for the August 1998 strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan might still exist in the NA, the 9/11 O-mission's own footnote says they did not receive any copies of it, in any form.

Even if that 1998 'original' report is still buried in the NA, it will not surface for 50 years, if ever, now that it has been withheld from the 9/11 O-mission. That is the bottom line for me: the missing report can be presumed to have been one of the most important documents of the Clintonista era relating to terrorism was not reviewed by the 9/11 O-mission. One has to expect that any such "after action report" would contain (1) comments on failures of planning or execution, (2) recommendations for what should be done better, differently, etc. in the future.

The fact that this document went missing is bigger than the "18 minute gap" on one of the Watergate tapes!