4 Responses to “Sandy Berger, Ex-Clinton National Security Adviser, Dies”

1. DSP2
   December 2nd, 2015 @ 4:49 pm

   Warning to FBI director Comey. Hillary must walk.

2. John
   December 3rd, 2015 @ 5:34 am

   Who gave the order?

3. EyeballNews
   December 3rd, 2015 @ 6:15 am

   Wasn’t Berger the guy who shoved all sorts of Clinton-related documents down his pants to keep them from surfacing?

4. John
   December 4th, 2015 @ 5:00 am

   That’s the guy!

   On July 19, 2004, it was revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Berger for unauthorized removal of classified documents in October 2003 from a National Archives reading room prior to testifying before the 9/11 Commission. The documents were five classified copies of a single report commissioned from Richard Clarke covering internal assessments of the Clinton Administration’s handling of the unsuccessful 2000 millennium attack plots. An associate of Berger said Berger took one copy in September 2003 and four copies in October 2003. Berger subsequently lied to investigators when questioned about the removal of the documents.

   In April 2005, Berger pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives in Washington.

   According to the lead prosecutor in the case, Berger only took copies of classified information and no original material was destroyed. Berger was fined $50,000, sentenced to serve two years of probation and 100 hours of community service, and stripped of his security clearance for 3 years. The Justice Department initially said Berger stole only copies of classified documents and not originals, but the House Government Reform Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had been given access to classified files of original, uncopied, uninventoried documents on terrorism. During the House Government Reform Committee hearings, Nancy Kegan Smith acknowledged that she had granted Berger access to original materials in her office.

   On December 20, 2006, Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that 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 having later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.

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