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Clinton Library Won’t Release Berger Documents

May 5, 2008

By Fred Lucas, CNS News

The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library will not make available to the public the documents that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger illegally took from the National Archives in 2003.

A letter from the library said the total 502 pages from the Millennium Alert After Action Review (MAAR) are "restricted in their entirety," under federal law and that the documents are "classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy."

Further, the library stated the documents contain "confidential communications requesting or submitting advice between the president and his advisors, or between such advisors."

The library's letter was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Cybercast News Service . The library has responded to several other requests, but in those cases it was to inform CNSNews.com that library staff was processing the request.

Berger, who was national security advisor for President Clinton from 1997 to 2001, took five different copies of pages from the classified MAAR out of the archives by stuffing them in his suit and exiting the archives building. Berger did that at a time (September-October 2003) when the 9/11 Commission was beginning to investigate both the Clinton and Bush administrations' handling of the terror threat in the led up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The Millennium Alert After Action Review was reportedly a 1999 assessment of how the nation was handling terrorist threats. The assessment was distributed to only 15 people in the Clinton administration and contained 29 recommendations, according to published reports.

On Oct. 2, 2003, Berger removed four documents, each of which were versions of MAAR. Berger left the building and later went to a construction area, according to the National Archives Inspector General's (IG) report. He removed documents from his pockets, folded the documents and slid them under a trailer at the construction site, the report said. That night, the IG reported, Berger went to his office and cut with scissors three of the four pilfered documents into small pieces.

When the National Archives contacted him two days later to say documents were missing, he said he did not take them, according to the IG report. Berger later called the archives to tell them he found two of the documents, but not the other two.

In April 2005, he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of removing and retaining classified material. He was fined $50,000, sentenced to two years probation and 100 hours community service, and stripped of his security clearance for three years. He also relinquished his license to practice law.

Source:  CNS News

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2 Responses to “Clinton Library Won’t Release Berger Documents”

  1. Desparaged on May 5th, 2008 12:18 pm

    “”classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.”

    Boy, I just ‘bet the house’ that these Berger documents are ‘classified’, but not in the interest of national defense or foreign policy; rather classified in the ‘personal interests of the Clintons’. I have a feeling that if the public were to see these documents, that would put an immediate end to HRCs bid for nomination and would in all probability put WJC in prison where he belongs and has belonged a since the impeachment effort. There are so many questions still lingering about the Clintons, but just like Bushco. we will NEVER know until it is simply too late! As a result, I can only wish them and their families a cancer filled life, Alzheimers, or debilitating physical castrophy or all of these events with all the horror of hell that they in all probability will not see until their lives end and they live with Satan in the hereafter!

  2. Peggy McGilligan on May 5th, 2008 7:46 pm

    During the Clinton Administration, California Governor Grey Davis got booted for corruption. He also signed agreements with energy companies like ENRON, insuring that the folk’s utility bills would double and triple. You couldn’t go from one end of town to the other, because the traffic lights failed. At first the “rolling brown outs” were blamed on PCs and cell phones. But it may as well have been Godzilla. The infrastructure collapsed. Businesses pulled up stakes and left the state in droves. Under Bill Clinton, amid rampant corruption the powers that be enforced political correctness instead of the law. For white-collar criminals and Sandy Berger, the 1990s was a gilded age.

    Hillary Clinton tries to deny the rotten job she’s done as a New York Senator, but Hillary defers to the voter on the topic of Reverend Wright. That’s because when Hillary & Bill Clinton founded their own college (in a sanctuary city, she calls an “empowerment zone”), they also combed through 40,000 résumés, all to the left of the Rev. Wright. The faculty sets the tone at any university, and the Clinton’s crème de la crème of the hard-left insured that theirs would be a fitting tribute to radical anti-Americanism and the politics of racial hatred. You say you’ve heard of tenured radicals – but where does Sandy Berger fit into this? Imagine what a couple of Clintons could do with a state university. Toss in a corrupt Vermont Lt. Governor and a few Middle Eastern flight students. Sharpen your scissors, your education is about to begin: http://theseedsof9-11.com

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