[Vision2020] I wonder what the Clinton Admin. wanted destroyed

[Pat Kraut]

I wondered that also!


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Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:57 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] I wonder what the Clinton Admin. wanted destroyed


>From the pages of the LM Tribune.

Judge fines Berger $50,000 for taking classified documents from archives

WASHINGTON -- Sandy Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser
who was once entrusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets, was fined
$50,000 Thursday for taking classified documents from the National Archives.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson handed down the punishment in federal
court, stiffening the $10,000 fine recommended by government lawyers. Under
the deal, Berger avoids prison time but he must surrender access to
classified government materials for three years.

"The court finds the fine is inadequate because it doesn't reflect the
seriousness of the offense," Robinson said, as a grim-faced Berger stood
silently.

She also sentenced Berger to two years' probation and 100 hours of community
service.

Earlier in the hearing, Berger made a short emotional plea that admitted
fault and expressed remorse for his crime.

"I let considerations of personal convenience override clear rules of
handling classified material," said Berger, calling his actions a lapse of
judgment that came while he was preparing to testify before the Sept. 11
commission last year.

The sentencing capped a bizarre sequence of events in which Berger admitted
to sneaking classified documents out of the National Archives in his suit,
later destroying some of them in his office and then lying about it.

Methinks he took a fall for the good of the Clintonites.

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