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Fox: Sandy Berger to cop a plea on secrets theft
Former national security adviser Sandy Berger (search) will plead guilty to taking classified documents from the National Archives, the Justice Department said Thursday.Berger, who served in the Clinton administration, will enter the plea Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra. The plea agreement, if accepted by a judge, ends a bizarre episode in which the man who once had access to the government's most sensitive intelligence was accused of sneaking documents out of the Archives in his clothing. The Bush administration disclosed the investigation days before the Sept. 11 commission (search) issued its final report. Democrats claimed the White House was using Berger to deflect attention from the harsh report, with its potential for damaging Bush's re-election prospects. Berger previously acknowledged he removed from the National Archives (search) copies of documents about the government's anti-terror efforts and notes that he took on those documents. He said he was reviewing the materials to help determine which Clinton administration documents to provide to the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He called the episode "an honest mistake," and denied criminal wrongdoing. Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-31 |
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