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Old 07-30-2004, 02:02 PM
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Default Berger Cleared of Any Wrongdoing

In a big headline as the accusations were. Hmmm...liberal media?
Anyway, here's an article:

Clinton Adviser Berger Cleared of Document Theft
President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger -- who'd been accused of stealing classified material from the National Archives -- has been cleared of all wrongdoing.

The National Archives and the Justice Department have concluded nothing is missing and nothing in the Clinton administration's record was withheld from the 9-11 Commission.

The Wall Street Journal reports archives staff have accounted for all classified documents Berger looked at.

Late last year they asked investigators to see if the former national security adviser removed materials during his visits.

Berger's lawyers said his client had inadvertently removed several photocopies of reports, but later returned them.

http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_de...wsitemid=39459
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Old 07-30-2004, 02:36 PM
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Default you sure?

I can find no corroboration anywhere else. This would be all over the wires, if true.
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Default Newsmax says the WJD got it wrong

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/120251.shtml

But it newmax after all, so take it with a grain of salt.
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Default i don't know

mediamatters.org mentions it and oth piece cite something in the wall street journal. so that's all i have to go by.
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Old 07-30-2004, 03:53 PM
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Default Not in the WSJ

I take the Wall Street Journal every day. And I didn't see a thing about it. Plus, Newsmax did call a source at the National Archives who says the story is not true....and she won't comment on the case because in her words, "it's under investigation."
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Old 07-30-2004, 04:24 PM
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Default Yes it is in the WSJ

Here's a link. I can't access it because I'm not a subscriber.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1...5Fprimary%5Fhs

WAS BERGER SMEARED? Sure looks like it. The Wall Street Journal reports:

>Officials looking into the removal of classified documents from the National Archives by former Clinton National Security Adviser Samuel Berger say no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger reviewed was withheld from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Several prominent Republicans, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, have voiced suspicion that when Mr. Berger was preparing materials for the 9/11 Commission on the Clinton administration's antiterror actions, he may have removed documents that were potentially damaging to the former president's record.

The conclusion by archives officials and others would seem to lay to rest the issue of whether any information was permanently destroyed or withheld from the commission.

Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper said officials there "are confident that there aren't any original documents missing in relation to this case." She said in most cases, Mr. Berger was given photocopies to review, and that in any event officials have accounted for all originals to which he had access.

That included all drafts of a so-called after-action report prepared by the White House and federal agencies in 2000 after the investigation into a foiled bombing plot aimed at the Millennium celebrations. That report and earlier drafts are at the center of allegations that Mr. Berger might have permanently removed some records from the archives. Some of the allegations have related to the possibility that drafts with handwritten notes on them may have disappeared, but Ms. Cooper said archives staff are confident those documents aren't missing either.

Daniel Marcus, general counsel of the 9/11 Commission, said the panel had been assured twice by the Justice Department that no originals were missing and that all of the material Mr. Berger had access to had been turned over to the commission. "We are told that the Justice Department is satisfied that we've seen everything that the archives saw," and "nothing was missing," he said.
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Old 07-30-2004, 04:42 PM
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Default Patience

I'm not a subscriber either, so I can't follow the link. But it's still not popping up anywhere else, and I don't think the media are THAT asleep at the wheel today.

I'd suggest waiting to hear more before getting too excited. If it's true, it's true and will come out soon enough.
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Default It's TRUE

I read it on Reuters and saw it on CNN too.

I'll betcha $1000 cyberbucks the neo-cons won't have much to say, after all the whining and sneering they did before.

Poor JP5 was SO excited when the originals story broke - - I believe I remember her exclaiming how HUGE this was.............now all she can do is whine that we're lying about Berger being smeared by the "liberal media".

Methinks JP5 needs to take a political break - - defending this regime of war criminals and corporate 'hoes has just wore the poor thing to a frazzle.
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Default HA HA!!

So sorry...

this is just more LiberHate propaganda here on this thread.

So far, there is NOTHING about Sandy Berger being cleared....or else it would be ALL over the news.

Notice how the LiberHaters cannot find any link to post??

Ha ha ha ha!!!!

The investigation continues....so LiberHaters can keep on being afraid....VERY afraid!

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Default Put up...or shut Up!

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I read it on Reuters and saw it on CNN too.

I'll betcha $1000 cyberbucks the neo-cons won't have much to say, after all the whining and sneering they did before.

Poor JP5 was SO excited when the originals story broke - - I believe I remember her exclaiming how HUGE this was.............now all she can do is whine that we're lying about Berger being smeared by the "liberal media".

Methinks JP5 needs to take a political break - - defending this regime of war criminals and corporate 'hoes has just wore the poor thing to a frazzle.
And methinks YOU need to apologize for jumping on this BOGUS story. Either post a legitimate source that says he's no longer under investigation.....or SHUT UP! Put up...or shut up!!
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