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[Tyrone Slothrop]

The memo the drafts of which Berger is accused of liberating from the National Archives concerned an episode that the Clinton Administration considered a signal success of its anti-terrorism policy -- its planning for the Millenium. Richard Clarke's book touts the Administration's effort to prepare for that as responsible, along with some luck, for foiling efforts to bomb a hotel in Jordan and the Los Angeles airport, among others. So it makes no sense at all that Berger would be trying to hide those materials from the 9/11 Commission. Which, in any event, says it saw everything, never mind what conservatives are saying about Berger:

• There is nothing random about the documents he took. Berger stripped the files of every single copy of a single memo which detailed the Clinton administration's response to the Y2K terror threat.

Tucker Carlson
Crossfire
July 22nd 2004

• DOBBS: Let me ask you, not necessarily directly on point, but certainly related. Sandy Berger, the former head of the national security -- national security adviser under the Clinton administration, accused of, and admitting taking classified documents from the National Archives, those notes, whether copies or originals still unclear. Did the commission review that material, to what -- can you shed any light on what happened there? [Former Republican Senator] Slade Gorton, first.
  
  GORTON: Well, we can't shed any light on exactly what happened there and on Sandy Berger's troubles with the Justice Department and the Archives. What we can say unequivocally is we had all of that information. We have every one of those documents. All of them have -- are infused in and are a part of our report.
  
  DOBBS: So the commission was denied no information as a result of whatever Sandy Berger did or did not do at the National Archives?
  
  GORTON: That's precisely correct.
  
  GORELICK: And we have been so assured by the Justice Department.

Dobbs, Gorton & Gorelick
Lou Dobbs Tonight
July 22nd 2004