Berger pleads guilty.

Post #201,589 by mmoffitt 4/1/05 3:32:10 PM Reply	Berger pleads guilty. AP) Sandy Berger, who was President Clinton's top national security aide, pleaded guilty Friday to taking classified documents from the National Archives and cutting them up with scissors. Rather than the "honest mistake" he described last summer, Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and deliberately destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium celebration. "Guilty, your honor," Berger responded when asked how he pleaded. [link\|http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/01/politics/main684631.shtml\|http://www.cbsnews.c.../main684631.shtml] Okay, I'm an idiot. What do you suppose was on those documents? bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. God Bless America.
Post #201,622 by bionerd 4/1/05 11:47:27 PM Reply	"What do you suppose was on those documents?" He stuffed them down his pants. I dont want to know.
Post #201,627 by Andrew Grygus 4/2/05 12:43:08 AM Reply	Oh, I'm sure they weren't THAT exciting. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #201,723 by Arkadiy 4/3/05 1:45:38 PM Reply	The documents themselves seem to exist elsewhere. The particular copies he destroyed were the ones with markup from someone senior. The thing to destroy was the markup, not the document itself (disclaimer - I don't know how close to truth the above claim is. just passing on what I hheard elsewhere) -- "Consider a perfectly spherical cow, radiating milk isotropically." -- [link\|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002008.html\|Language Log]
Post #201,750 by mmoffitt 4/3/05 5:24:59 PM Reply	That's what I find odd. The only thing I can figure is that the thwarting of the planned Millenium Airplane attack was an accident (i.e. senior staff didn't think it was going to happen and perhaps that is indicated in the now destroyed notes). But I find it ironic: destroying historical documents concerning what was by any measure a success. bcnu, Mikem Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer. God Bless America.

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