foxnews.com has this article about the report from an internal investigation into Sandy Berger's removal of classified documents. Here are some of the more intresting parts of the inspector's notes:
Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets.
"He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ (Department of Justice), and did not see anyone," the interview notes said.
He then slid the documents under a construction trailer, according to the inspector general. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.
"He was aware of the risk he was taking," the inspector general's notes said. Berger then returned to the Archives building without fearing the documents would slip out of his pockets or that staff would notice that his pockets were bulging.
The notes said Berger had not been aware that Archives staff had been tracking the documents he was provided because of earlier suspicions from previous visits that he was removing materials. Also, the employees had made copies of some documents.
From what I gather this was not the first time Berger had taken documents from the National Archives. Of course he pleaded guilty and his big sentence was...... $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.
This guy should be behind bars and if he ever got out again, never be allowed near a classified document ever again. I am sure if it were you or I we would be behind bars, never to see the light of day again.
/clintonista mode
Posted by: JCM on December 21, 2006 08:20 PMSeriously, I also read that the staff were hesitant to confront him because of 'who he was'. Clearly, the privileged ones in WA get away with stuff you or I would get thrown in the slammer for.
Posted by: Michele on December 21, 2006 08:58 PMYes he does get his security clearance back after three years. This means he will have it back either around Oct 08 or Jan 09. What timing. How much you want to bet Hillary would just love to have him on her staff if (god forbid)she got elected.
Posted by: TrueSoldier on December 22, 2006 10:47 AM/s/ W. Jefferson Clinton, Esq.
Just who do you think sent him in there to launder away those documents?
Bet ya the last name begins with a "C", and the first name with W or H.
Posted by: Keb on December 22, 2006 12:16 PMCheck out the Justice Department Prosecutor on the Berger case hand selected by the Bush Whitehouse. He is a prosecutor famous for letting people walk with easy plea bargins ... appointed by Bush by the way. High Level Republicans did not want to make an issue of the Berger case, Why? I don't know.