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Berger Hid Archives Papers Under a Trailer, Probe Shows
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 21, 2006; Page A07
On the evening of Oct. 2, 2003, former White House national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stashed highly classified documents he had taken from the National Archives beneath a construction trailer at the corner of Ninth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW so he could surreptitiously retrieve them later and take them to his office, according to a newly disclosed government investigation.
The documents he took detailed how the Clinton administration had responded to the threat of terrorist attacks at the end of 1999. Berger removed a total of five copies of the same document without authorization and later used scissors to destroy three before placing them in his office trash, the National Archives inspector general concluded in a Nov. 4, 2005, report.
I'm sorry, but this is stupidity on his part, at minimum. This is the kind of shit that Republicans normally engage in (ie. destroying evidence for Watergate and Iran-Contra.) Berger needs to come clean about what exactly he destroyed, and soon.
Unfortunately, this incident will arm the right-wingers with talking-points. The MSM is also gloating. I was just watching Wolf, and he took a dig at "liberal bloggers" for arguing with Kelly Arena's initial report back in 2004. He then said something like "your reporting was correct as always."
Thanks Sandy. Now the Freepers and the Georgetown circuit can have some laughs at our expense.