CLINTON AIDE AND KERRY BUTTBOY PROBED IN FILE SWIPE (Shoplifts The
Evidence of Clinton Screwup on Terror)
July 20, 2004 -- WA****NGTON Former National Security Adviser Sandy
Berger is the focus of a criminal probe after he removed highly
classified terrorism do***ents from a secure reading room while
preparing for the Sept. 11 commission hearings. The ex-Clinton
administration official's home and office were searched earlier this
year by FBI agents armed with warrants after he voluntarily returned
do***ents to the National Archives.
But some drafts of a sensitive, after-action re****t critical of the
Clinton administration's handling of al Qaeda terror threats during
the December 1999 millennium celebration are still missing.
The FBI searches of Berger's home and office occurred after National
Archives employees told agents they believed they witnessed Berger
place do***ents in his clothing while reviewing sensitive Clinton
administration papers, officials said.
The officials said the missing do***ents were highly classified and
included critical *****sments about the Clinton administration's
handling of the millennium terror threats as well as identification of
America's vulnerabilities at air****ts to sea****ts.
When asked, Berger said he returned some classified do***ents that he
found in his office and all of the handwritten notes he had taken from
the secure room, but said he could not locate two or three copies of
the highly classified millennium terror re****t.
Berger and his lawyer said last night he knowingly removed handwritten
notes he had made while reading classified anti-terror do***ents
hereviewed at the archives by sticking them in his jacket and pants.
He
also inadvertently took copies of actual classified do***ents in a
leather ****tfolio, they said.
"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of
withholding do***ents from the commission . . . to my knowledge, every
do***ent requested by the commission from the Clinton administration
was produced," Berger said.
Berger served as Clinton's national security adviser for all of the
president's second term and most recently has been informally advising
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Clinton asked Berger last year to review and select the administration
do***ents that would be turned over to the commission.
"In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of
do***ents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with
requests by the Sept. 11 commission, I inadvertently took a few
do***ents from the Archives," Berger said.
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