Filegate, Travelgate, 9/11 Gate, Clinton/Kerry Advisor in trouble

[Dreadsox]

This "honest mistake" from someone who has been involved in our countries secrets, does not fly with me.

#1 It began before they caught him. Archivists were suspicious and caught him on a second (possibly third visit).
#2 I do not care where he put the documents to get them out, he knew better.
#3 When he found them at home, he should have returned them, not thrown them away.

[Klaus]

Dreadsox

[verte76]

I agree Dread this is not cool. He should have returned that stuff.

[verte76]

I also think Berger did some good things when he was National Security Advisor. He helped with the Good Friday treaty in Ireland. That's something IMO. I will agree that this is not exactly one of them.

[nbcrusader]

Perhaps Berger was trying to draw attention away from something else...

Berger Said No

On December 4, 1999, the National Security Council’s counterterrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, sent Mr. Berger a memo suggesting a strike in the last week of 1999 against Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Reports the commission: “In the margin next to Clarke’s suggestion to attack Al Qaeda facilities in the week before January 1, 2000, Berger wrote, ‘no.’ ”

Somewhat inconsistent with his 9-11 Commission testimony (which focused on GWB).

[ThatGuy]

So he tried to hide his actions by destroying copies of the documents?

I also find it interesting that the editorial writer, when making the rhetorical statements about who is to blame for keeping Clinton preoccupied with other matters, does not mention the media.

[deep]

Anyway, the problem with such theories would be that because



the original documents remain in the National Archives,


Berger would not have been able to deny the 9/11 commission access to them. Any attempted cover-up would not have covered anything up. Instead, he's now drawn attention to the documents.

Everybody does realize "no evidence" was lost or destroyed?