Sandy Berger
Sandy Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton – who pleaded guilty in 2005 to sneaking secret documents from the National Archives in his socks and pants – has died at the age of 70.
“Very sad start to day; just learned Sandy Berger passed away during the night,” tweeted Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Politico reported. “Good man & friend who served nation well as bill clinton’s NSA.”
And Antony Blinken, deputy secretary of State, tweeted: “Mourn the passing of Sandy Berger – friend, husband, mentor, friend, leader and great patriot. RIP SRB.”
Berger ignited a national firestorm after he was caught, red–handed some said, stuffing highly classified documents from the National Archives in Washington in 2004 into his socks and beneath the waistband of his pants.
For that, he pleaded guilty in 2005 and paid a fine of $50,000, and served two years of probation. He also lost his security clearance for three years, and subsequently – after facing a Department of Justice investigation and several heated congressional hearings – relinquished his law license.
He said, in 2007 after giving up his law practice: “While I derived great satisfaction from years of practicing law, I have not done so for 15 years and do not envision returning to the profession. I am very sorry for what I did and deeply apologize,” the Associated Press reported.
The documents Berger stole from the National Archives deal with the events surrounding the al-Qaida attacks on America during Clinton’s presidency.
As Spectacle.org reported: “An FBI investigation revealed [Berger] had stolen Top Secret memos and documents from the National Archives relating to the events surrounding al-Qaida attacks on America during the 1990s and in the year 2000. Archive security notified the FBI when they discovered documents missing, and saw Berger stuffing papers into his pants, socks, and a leather briefcase. Upon investigation, Berger admitted that he had ‘made a mistake,’ and took them. Unfortunately, Berger says he ‘lost’ some of the documents, but that he returned some of them after his the FBI searched his home. Amazingly, he even returned some documents that the Archive hadn’t yet noted were missing! He apologized and said he had just been ‘sloppy.’”
Berger was Clinton’s leading foreign policy adviser in the 1992 campaign season and became his deputy national security adviser, and ultimately, national security adviser, in March 1997, Politico reported.
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