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Sandy Berger Dead

2015-12-02

Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, who served under President Bill Clinton, has died at the age of 70 from cancer.
conveeeenient for Hillary!
Berger's legacy was marred, however, when he pleaded guilty in 2005 to removing highly classified documents from the National Archives in Washington the previous year. The inspector general of the National Archives said that a staff member had witnessed the former NSA adviser wrapping the classified documents around his socks and under his pants.

He was fined $50,000, sentenced to two years' probation and stripped of his security clearance for three years. Following a Justice Department investigation and subsequent congressional hearings, Berger voluntarily gave up his license to practice law in 2007.

"While I derived great satisfaction from years of practicing law, I have not done so for 15 years and do not envision returning to the profession," Berger said, according to a contemporaneous Associated Press report, "I am very sorry for what I did, and deeply apologize.

Posted by:Frank G

#7 His pants could not be reached for comment.

Posted by: charger 2015-12-02 20:03

#6 Bury him in his shorts, just to make sure.

Posted by: Grunter 2015-12-02 12:20

#5 from wiki: "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. During the House Government Reform Committee hearings, Nancy Kegan Smith acknowledged that she had granted Berger access to original materials in her office."

No indication anywhere I can find that they even knew what documents were taken, and no indication any were found. They just observed him hiding documents on his person. Berger later testified he had hidden documents during an unsupervised break, then retrieved them.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2015-12-02 11:41

#4 We're left to speculate, but my bet is on the documents related to tracking and options to take out OBL prior to 2001.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-12-02 11:38

#3 Did they ever get the documents back? Do they know what was taken?

Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-02 11:31

#2 "Berger's legacy was marred..."

Marred? Try irredeemably stained. I remember him now as Sandy Burglar, and have to correct my recollection every time.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2015-12-02 11:25

#1 Hmmm....

Posted by: DarthVader 2015-12-02 11:11

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