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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He has taken documents from the National
Archives...it is serious because it is the material that will be used to write
the history books in the future. So, I think he knew exactly what he was taking
and was helping out Bill as well as himself. I won't be partisan politics if he
gets fined and/or jail time. Just not being allowed in the place might be good
enough for some but I want to see him punished more than that. AND I would feel
that way if he was republican. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am now watching C-Span. Its a townhall meeting
with Bush. If you are surprised by his attitude about legacy college attendance
may I suggest that you don't know him very well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PK</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rforce@moscow.com href="mailto:rforce@moscow.com">Ron Force</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 09, 2004 2:08
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Re: Sandy Berger
Exonerated(or not?)</DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=437585520-09082004>Transcript from this morning's (August 9) <EM>Morning
Edition </EM>below. <SPAN class=531060621-09082004>A</SPAN>pparently, he's not
out of the woods yet.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>**********************************************<BR>Ron
Force Moscow
ID <SPAN class=531060621-09082004><FONT
face=Arial>USA</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><SPAN class=531060621-09082004></SPAN><FONT size=2> rforce@<SPAN
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<BLOCKQUOTE><!--StartFragment --> Congress is on vacation, but the
people left behind in Washington, DC, are still talking about 9/11 hearings,
terror alerts and Sandy Berger<STRONG>.</STRONG> President Clinton's
national security adviser acknowledges removing classified records from the
National Archives last year as he was preparing to testify before the 9-11
Commission. No original documents are missing; even so, Sandy Berger faces
two probes for his actions, one of them criminal. NPR's Libby Lewis
reports.<BR class=br><BR class=br>LIBBY LEWIS reporting:<BR class=br><BR
class=br>Sandy Berger may have violated several federal laws by taking from
the archives some drafts of a Clinton-era memo on national security that
were written for him and by taking and removing his own notes on classified
material. Berger has said his actions were inadvertent. Jonathan Turley of
George Washington University Law School says it would be surprising to see
Berger charged with a crime. That doesn't mean he won't be punished. <BR
class=br><BR class=br>Mr. JONATHAN TURLEY (George Washington University Law
School): These cases tend to militate against criminal charges. If Berger's
case follows the trend, he won't be prosecuted, but there still remains a
question as to whether he will ever hold a clearance again.<BR class=br><BR
class=br>LEWIS: Now what about the serious questions some Republican leaders
raised when the story broke? Did Sandy Berger try to hide or, worse, destroy
information about the Clinton administration's handling of terrorism? At the
time, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay suggested Berger's action might have
created a national security crisis. The Justice Department assured the 9-11
Commission that it saw every document Berger had access to in the archives
and that no original documents were missing. That's according to Al
Felzenberg, a spokesman for the 9-11 Commission. Susan Cooper of the
National Archives also confirmed to NPR that no original documents are
missing.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Even so, the House Government Reform
Committee is keeping up its inquiry of Berger's conduct. A spokesman for the
committee, Robert White, said the inquiry is important in light of the push
to adopt the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission. He said the panel also
wants to look at questions of security at the National Archives. He declined
to speak on tape.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Now it appears the Justice
Department is helping the House investigation by making witnesses available.
Witnesses are normally barred from talking until a criminal probe is
complete. On Friday, Democrat Henry Waxman wrote Attorney General John
Ashcroft to ask why the Justice Department had changed its policy in this
case. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.<BR class=br><BR
class=br>Berger's lawyer, Lanny Breuer, said he hopes it means the Justice
Department has decided not to pursue the criminal case, but he fears worse.
After all, he said, politics has already seeped in, and it was leaked to the
press at a critical time, days before the 9-11 Commission issued its report.
Breuer said it's clear Berger's actions did no damage to the 9/11
investigation.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Mr. LANNY BREUER (Sandy Berger's
Lawyer): It's hard for a fair-minded person to conclude that there's any
reason that the Sandy <B>Berger</B> matter is now being looked at other than
because of partisan concerns in an election year.<BR class=br><BR
class=br>LEWIS: Republican House leaders deny Berger's party affiliation has
anything to do with its probe. In a letter to his Democratic colleague Henry
Waxman, Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis wrote, 'I don't care if it's
Sandy Berger or Warren Burger or veggie burger who walked off with code-word
documents. It's the walking off, the consequences of it, the fact that it
could happen that concern the committee.' Those partisan quips aside, Sandy
Berger's errors have left Berger disappointed and saddened, his lawyer
says.<BR class=br><BR class=br>Libby Lewis, NPR News, Washington.
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