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Sandy Berger Probed Over Terror Memos

WASHINGTON — Former President Clinton's national security adviser is under criminal investigation for taking highly classified terrorism documents that should have been turned over to the independent commission probing the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, FOX News has confirmed.

Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket, pants and socks, and also inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio.

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"Lanny Breuer, one of Berger's attorneys, said his client had offered to cooperate fully with the investigation but had not yet been interviewed by the FBI or prosecutors."

Doesn't sound like a criminal investigation to me. So he's a slob, big deal. Thanks for blowing this out of proportion Fox "News"

 

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It's getting more and more interesting...I was wondering why Kerry wasn't in public today...

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SENATE REPUBLICANS ACCUSE JOHN KERRY OF USING CLASSIFIED INFO STOLEN BY SANDY BERGER:
ABCNews.com

SEN. SAXBY CHAMBLISS: "Reportedly these documents related to homeland security and then suddenly we see that the Kerry campaign came forward with what may have been illegal documents. This is sensitive stuff and was a significant breach of security... Kerry knows better than to use these documents," Chambliss says in press conference...

SEN. GORDON SMITH: "There is a curious connection between the removal of these documents and the Kerry press conference on port security... It's disappointing what people might do as they try to take the President down."

JUSTICE DEPT INVESTIGATES BERGER: Former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is the subject of investigation for removing highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, reports ABC News' Pierre Thomas... Berger allegedly reviewed the documents during preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, after which they went missing... When confronted Berger returned some of the documents... Berger tells AP he deeply regrets "the sloppiness" and that he had "no intention of withholding documents from the commissions." MORE from AP

SENATE MINORITY LEADER DASCHLE: "Sandy has served his country very ably and very well... This has been underway for this long, somebody leaked it obviously with an intent to do damage to Mr. Berger, and that's unfortunate... I think the timing of all of this is curious... Berger deserves the benefit of the doubt until the investigation is complete," Daschle says to press stake out after policy luncheon...

 

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Oh, thats never happened before or anything...Its not like the Bush adminstration didn't threaten the life of a CIA undercover agent that way :eviltongu

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/july-dec04/plame_07-08.html

The search for an alleged leak from the Bush White House that exposed an undercover CIA operative recently reached the Oval Office.

President Bush was questioned for 70 minutes two weeks ago by the federal prosecutor investigating the case.

The exposed operative is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Wilson was sent by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate intelligence claims that Iraq had sought to buy nuclear material from the West African nation of Niger.

He found the reports groundless and advised the CIA. Despite Wilson's warning, the president pointed to the alleged uranium purchase in last year's state of the union address as evidence that Iraq sought banned weapons...

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/july-dec03/historyleaks_10-09.html

Finally tonight, the presidential press leaks' history. The Bush White House is undergoing an investigation into who disclosed the identity of an undercover CIA officer to journalists, allegedly in retaliation for the antiwar sentiments of the agent's husband.

The employees of President George W. Bush are not the first to face such scrutiny, nor, most likely, will they be the last. We get some perspective now from: journalist and author Haynes Johnson; Roger Wilkins, professor of history at George Mason University; Richard Norton Smith, director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois; and Joan Hoff, professor of history at Montana State University.

Richard, start the history lesson for us, what does the record tell us about the use of leaks by presidents through history?...