Ronald Cass at Real Clear Politics reminds us of a story that the MSM isn't the least bit interested in.
President Clinton designated Berger as his representative to the 9/11 Commission and related hearings, which gave Berger special access to highly classified documents in the National Archives relating to the Clinton Administration's handling of al-Qaeda and similar terror threats. Berger got around rules requiring that the documents only be reviewed with Archives' employees present, purposefully stole documents, destroyed them, and lied about it all. When caught, he first blamed Archives employees for misplacing the documents, then admitted having taken them inadvertently (this is the point at which he cut the plea deal), and finally acknowledged what was obvious from the facts that were emerging - he intentionally removed and destroyed documents.
Berger managed to cut a deal with the Justice Department that allowed him to keep his law license. But the Board of the District of Columbia Bar, which issued Berger's license, was compelled to launch its own investigation. The only way Berger could bring that process to a halt was by surrendering his law license, which he has now done.
Cass makes a compelling case that there must have been something very embarrassing in those documents that Berger smuggled out in his stockings. But that doesn't tell us what it was. The significance of this story is that it reminds us of one of the more entertaining aspects of the last Clinton administration. Important documents under subpoena, like the Rose Law Firm documents, would mysteriously disappear and that just as mysteriously reappear months later. The Berger heist suggests that we can look forward to more of the same if the Clintons return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They should start selling tickets now.
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