Myrmidonisia
21-12-2006, 18:45
It doesn't seem like this will ever just go away. And it shouldn't, in all honest. Not until some important questions are answered. And, more than likely, they never will be answered, now that he's been convicted.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 September 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration's representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials.
What documents did he take/lose/destroy/compromise?
Did the 9/11 commission ever get what it wanted from him?
This should be fuel for weeks of stories in the NYT or Washington Post, shouldn't it? All the editorial pages should be screaming about the careless treatment that classified information has received by high ranking government officials. But will they? Not likely, Berger is a guy that is well liked inside the beltway and the rest of us would rather read about Rosie and 'The Donald' or watch Survivor re-runs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 September 11 commission. Berger was authorized as the Clinton administration's representative to make sure the commission got the correct classified materials.
What documents did he take/lose/destroy/compromise?
Did the 9/11 commission ever get what it wanted from him?
This should be fuel for weeks of stories in the NYT or Washington Post, shouldn't it? All the editorial pages should be screaming about the careless treatment that classified information has received by high ranking government officials. But will they? Not likely, Berger is a guy that is well liked inside the beltway and the rest of us would rather read about Rosie and 'The Donald' or watch Survivor re-runs.