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Remeber Sandy "Pants" Berger
Topic Started: Dec 20 2006, 02:57 PM (160 Views)
George K
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...and how all the Clintonistas said, it's no big deal?

In a report the Inspector General of the National Archives disagrees.

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 _ was removing classified documents from the Archives in the fall of they failed to notify any law enforcement agency.

Berger, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents, was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.

The report said that when Berger was reviewing the classified documents in the Archives building a few blocks from the Capitol, employees saw him bending down and fiddling with something white, which could have been paper, around his ankle.

However, Archives employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger's stature, the report said.

Brachfeld reported that on one visit, Berger took a break to go outside without an escort.

"In total, during this visit, he removed four documents ... .

"Mr. Berger said he placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)."

Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.

Berger, with the authorization of former President Clinton, was reviewing National Security Council documents on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida, Sudan, and related presidential correspondence. The review was to facilitate Berger's impending testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees.

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Under a trailer. Yep, he did it by accident. He forgot he had them.
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Mikhailoh
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That's credible.
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George K
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Well, we were told it was an accident. Why not believe that. They just fell out of his socks under the trailer.
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Mikhailoh
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Oh, well that's different. Perhaps he had them in his socks to keep warm. I have heard of the poor doing that in winter, and he was, after all, unemployed.

You have to give the guy the benefit of the doubt you know. It could happen.

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George K
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Let's play "Let's Pretend."

From The Fake News:

"Just days before her testimony before the 9/11 commission, former National Security Advisor, Condeleeza Rice, was seen leaving the National Archives with what appeared to be documents stuffed in her boots. An employee of the Archives stated that she took something out of her boots and placed it underneath a trailer in the area.

After her visit, documents relating to her discussions with former President George W. Bush were missing from the archives. Dr. Rice reported that she had inadvertently taken them to her Georgetown home and had, by accident, destroyed them."

Wouldn't that be front page news?
Dontcha think Keith Olberman, Chris Matthews, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, The Gals at "The View" would be just convulsing with glee?
Of course they would.

But, I'll bethca as well that here's what we'll see on tonite's (and tomorrow's) news:

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Piano*Dad
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The story surrounding these documents is surreal. I am not about to defend Mr. Berger, in part because I haven't really examined the case in any detail.

All I can add to the thread is an anecdote. Back in 2001 or 2002 he came to the college where I teach to give some public talks. I was part of a small group of faculty invited to lunch with him. Unlike many Washington honchos he was very personable and down to earth. There was nothing pretentious or superior about him. After the lunch I had him all to myself for a while and we talked about trade policy in the Clinton and Bush administrations. His observations were very trenchant and not in the least manipulative. His take was unvarnished and very perceptive.
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