Clinton Library Keeps Berger Stolen Docs Under Lock, Key and Zipper

Matt Margolis

Who can forget when former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger went into the National Archives during the 9/11 Commission investigation and stole documents by stuffing them into his pants and socks? Since then people have wondered what information was on those documents that Clinton’s inner circle didn’t want the public to know about… More evidence supporting claims that Bill Clinton was offered Osama bin Laden on a silver platter and refused? More evidence that Clinton missed the opportunity to strike bin Laden because he was golfing?

Well, if the Clinton Library apparently has copies of the documents, but has refused a FOIA request to release them.

The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library will not make available to the public the documents that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger illegally took from the National Archives in 2003.

A letter from the library said the total 502 pages from the Millennium Alert After Action Review (MAAR) are “restricted in their entirety,” under federal law and that the documents are “classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy.”

Further, the library stated the documents contain “confidential communications requesting or submitting advice between the president and his advisors, or between such advisors.”

The library’s letter was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Cybercast News Service . The library has responded to several other requests, but in those cases it was to inform CNSNews.com that library staff was processing the request.

Berger, who was national security advisor for President Clinton from 1997 to 2001, took five different copies of pages from the classified MAAR out of the archives by stuffing them in his suit and exiting the archives building. Berger did that at a time (September-October 2003) when the 9/11 Commission was beginning to investigate both the Clinton and Bush administrations’ handling of the terror threat in the led up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Where is the outrage?