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Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday. The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents. Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he said it was possible he threw them in his office trash. The report said that when Archives employees first suspected that Berger _ who had been President Clinton's national security adviser _...

Drowned Out by Katrina, Berger Gets Away With It Current Events/Frank Salvato, Managing Editor September 16, 2005 - Now that the vitriolic finger pointing has started to subside and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have admitted that maybe, just maybe, there might be some substance to the assessment that the disaster response from their local and state governments was practically non-existent, we can revisit news that the mainstream media opted to bump from the limelight. It was no surprise that the mainstream media chose to cover the events taking place in the aftermath of...