http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,237857,00.html Inspector General Says Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger Hid Classified Docs Wednesday, December 20, 2006 E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION WASHINGTON — President Clinton's national security adviser removed classified documents from the National Archives, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to find the trash collector to retrieve them, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday. The report was issued more than a year after Sandy Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removing the documents. Berger took the documents in the fall of 2003 while working to prepare himself and Clinton administration witnesses for testimony to the Sept. 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration's representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials. Berger's lawyer, Lanny Breuer, said in a statement that the contents of all the documents exist today and were made available to the commission. But Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, said he's not convinced that the Archives can account for all the documents taken by Berger. Davis said working papers of National Security Council staff members are not inventoried by the Archives. "There is absolutely no way to determine if Berger swiped any of these original documents. Consequently, there is no way to ever know if the 9/11 Commission received all required materials," Davis said. Berger pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents. He was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years. Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that National Archives employees spotted Berger bending down and fiddling with something white around his ankles. The employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger's stature, the report said. Later, when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he lied by saying he did not take them, the report said. Brachfeld's report included an investigator's notes, taken during an interview with Berger. The notes dramatically described Berger's removal of documents during an Oct. 2, 2003, visit to the Archives. Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets. "He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ (Department of Justice), and did not see anyone," the interview notes said. The Bypartison 9/11 commission including to Clinton staffers!:lol: Our government really is a joke under either president, politics as usual!
Clinton and Berger again. Sourdough, the issue today is Bush and Iraq and the FSA warhawks have been mighty quiet about it lately. Major things are happening, amigo.
The date was December 20, 2006. It was in the news and it was current when posted. If Clinton and Berger were Republicans you would be crying foul now wouldn't you? Actually you wouldn't because it would be a scandal like Watergate. Republicans are held to a totally different standard than democrats. The law discriminates time and time again. Merry Christmas:yelwink2:
