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A senior spokeswoman for the National Archives denied a report
Friday morning that Archives officials have cleared former Kerry-Edwards
campaign adviser Sandy Berger on charges that he withheld documents from
the 9/11 Commission.

"In spite of what the Wall Street Journal said, the National Archives
really isn't commenting on this case because it's under investigation,"
Susan Cooper, chief spokeswoman for the Archives, told NewsMax.com.

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Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI
agents armed with warrants after the former Clinton adviser voluntarily
returned some sensitive documents to the National Archives (search) and
admitted he also removed handwritten notes he had made while reviewing
the sensitive documents.

However, some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton
administration's handling of Al Qaeda terror threats during the December
1999 millennium celebration are still missing, officials and lawyers
said. Officials said the missing documents also identified America's
terror vulnerabilities at airports to seaports.

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.

"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of
withholding documents from the commission, and to the contrary, to my
knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton
administration was produced," Berger said in a statement.

I say:

He only regrets the sloppiness? Namely. that he got caught?

It's pretty obvious he did intend to withold documents. Those notes
are evidence from the Clinton era. He grabbed copies of documents that
had handwritte notes in the margins. Presumably the notes reflect badly
on that adminstration, or he wouldn't have grabbed them.

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In other words, according to the commission report, Mr. Berger was
presented with plans to take action against the threat of Al Qaeda four
separate times - Spring 1998, June 1999, December 1999, and August 2000.
Each time, Mr. Berger was an obstacle to action. Had he been a little
less reluctant to act, a little more open to taking pre-emptive action
maybe the 2,973 killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks would be aliv
today.

It really doesn't matter now what was in the documents from the
National Archives that Mr. Berger says he inadvertently misplaced. The
evidence in the commission's report yesterday is more than enough to
embarrass him thoroughly. He is a hardworking, warm man with a wonderful
family, but his background as a trade lawyer and his dovish, legalistic
and political instincts made him, in retrospect, the tragically wrong man
to be making national security decisions for America in wartime. That
Senator Kerry had Mr. Berger as a campaign foreign policy adviser even
before the archives scandal is enough to raise doubts about the
senator's judgment.

I say:

A hardworking, warm family man. And a sleaze. And an incompetent.
And an incompetent sleaze. The banality of Clintonism.

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