Coincidence?

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » September 3rd, 2008, 5:36 am

Report Describes Careless Handling of U.S. Secrets

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 3, 2008; Page A02

Former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales told investigators that he could not recall whether he took home notes regarding the government's most sensitive national security program and that he did not know they contained classified information, despite his own markings that they were "top secret -- eyes only," according to a Justice Department report released yesterday.

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Sandy Berger fined $50,000 for taking documents

Thursday, September 8, 2005; Posted: 5:16 p.m. EDT (21:16 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger was sentenced Thursday to community service and probation and fined $50,000 for illegally removing highly classified documents from the National Archives and intentionally destroying some of them.

Berger must perform 100 hours of community service and pay the fine as well as $6,905 for the administrative costs of his two-year probation, a district court judge ruled.

"I deeply regret the actions that I took at the National Archives two years ago, and I accept the judgment of the court," Berger said outside the courthouse after his sentencing.

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Jim · Post by **Jim** » September 3rd, 2008, 5:54 am

Appropriate punishment for criminal stupidity.

Silverback · Post by **Silverback** » September 3rd, 2008, 12:17 pm

Tenn-RGR wrote:Two different people, similar crimes, three years apart. Are you hinting at something SB?

Political wrangling (nothing new), Berger's crime was closed out as quietly as was reasonable and I wonder if the latter crime will be closed out as quietly???

Looon · Post by **Looon** » September 3rd, 2008, 2:49 pm

It will be handled differently IMO.

Berger stuffed shit into his pants.

wellfed · Post by **wellfed** » September 4th, 2008, 6:46 am

Ranger Luna wrote:It will be handled differently IMO.

Berger stuffed shit into his pants.

and socks and everywhere else out of the NATIONAL ARCHIVES...not some paperwork he just brought from home. He delibrately took and stole then destroyed historical documents from the archives. We will never know what those documents were or what was written. AG carelessly brought document home and did not secure them for a long period of time, but at least he didn't destroy or attempt to steal them. He handled classified material poorly and negligently but document weren't lost or destroyed. They were able to follow the documents from his office to his home and back to the AG's office to an unapproved storage location and then rectified the problem. Berger, We don't know where the documents are and what they were.