Sandy Berger

Sandy Berger should have stuck with his family name and flipped hamburger patties at Mickey D's. Instead he played jeopardy with U.S. level 'X' security documents.

What I keep wondering about are the documents that he supposedly shredded. Do we have any proof that he did not sell them? And if he did destroy them, then why? It does not seem wise to me, to close this case before knowing for sure what happened to those secret documents.

"In addition to removing the five documents and lying about his actions, Berger acknowledged that he destroyed three of them with scissors. His associates strained to explain the puzzle of why he destroyed three documents but preserved two others that were nearly identical.
"It isn't a great answer but he doesn't really know," said one associate. "He knew he shouldn't destroy all of these things but he didn't want to have a whole lot of classified documents sitting around in his office." Berger was notorious for having a desk that looked like it had been hit by a hurricane, and his defenders seemed to be suggesting he had held onto some copies and cut up others in order to avoid losing them."

LA Times article here
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