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Subject: Sticky-Fingers Sandy Berger Now Advising Hillary Clinton (!)
He's back ... Sandy Berger now advising Hillary Clinton
(Charles Dharapak/AP)
Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is shown leaving
federal court Thu, Sept. 8, 2005 in Washington in this file photo.
http://www.examiner.com/
a-977346~He_s_back__Sandy_Berger_now_advising_Hillary_Clinton.html
WASHINGTON - Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism
documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to
investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s
presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a
similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security
clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising
eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers. “It shows poor judgment and
a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,” said law professor
Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless
called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the
Democratic field.”
Adler told The Examiner that it is “simply incomprehensible to me
that a serious contender for the presidency would rely upon him as
a key foreign policy advisor.”
He added: “If Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, at
some point she will begin to receive national security briefings
that will include sensitive information. At such a point,
continuing to keep Berger on board as a key advisor, where he might
have access to sensitive material, would be beyond incomprehensible.”
The Clinton campaign declined to comment.
Berger has admitted stealing documents from the National Archives
in advance of the 9/11 Commission hearings in 2003. The documents,
written by White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, were a
“tough review” of the Clinton administration’s shortcomings in
dealing with terrorism, Clarke’s lawyer told the Washington Post.
On several occasions, Berger stuffed highly classified documents
into his pants and socks before spiriting them out of the Archives
building in Washington, according to investigators. On one
occasion, upon reaching the street, he hid documents under a
construction trailer after checking the windows of the Archives and
Justice Department buildings to make sure he was not being watched.
Berger came back later and retrieved the documents, taking them
home and cutting them up with scissors. Two days later, he was
informed by Archive employees that his removal of documents had
been detected.
“Berger panicked because he realized he was caught,” said a report
by the National Archives inspector general, which also recounted
his initial reaction. “Berger lied.”
Berger also lied to the public, telling reporters he made an
“honest mistake” by “inadvertently” taking the documents, which he
blamed on his own “sloppiness.” Bill Clinton vouched for the
explanation for Berger, who served as his national security adviser.
Berger later conceded: “I was giving a benign explanation for what
was not benign.”
The Justice Department initially said Berger stole only copies of
classified documents and not originals. But the House Government
Reform Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had
been given access to classified files of original, uncopied,
uninventoried documents on terrorism. Several Archives officials
acknowledged that Berger could have stolen any number of items and
they “would never know what, if any, original documents were missing.”
At his sentencing in September 2005, Berger was fined $50,000,
placed on probation for two years and stripped of his security
clearance for three years.
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