Comment: Looks like Liberals are just not making this watergate type
hype. I mean this is just as bad.


Sunday, July 25, 2004 2:47 p.m. EDT
Millennium Docs Destroyed by Berger Before 9/11 Hearings

NewsMax - Most of the existing drafts of the White House's
After-Action Millennium Plot Review were stolen from the National
Archives and destroyed by former National Security Advisor Sandy
Berger at least six months before the Sept. 11 Commission dealt with
Millennium issues in interim staff conclusions and public hearings.

A chronological review of hearings and staff statement transcripts
available on the 9/11 Commission Web site shows that the Millennium
plot was not covered in any detail until public hearings in March and
April 2004, more than six months after the Berger thefts.

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Over four sessions on March 23-24 and April 13-14, Commission
transcripts show a total of 96 references to both the Millennium plot
and the after-action review.
Before the Berger document destruction in September and October 2003,
however, a search through Commission transcripts covering five
separate hearings turns up just five mentions of the Millennium plot.

Berger's attorney, Lanny Breuer, acknowledged to the Washington Post
on Sunday that his client's last visit to the National Archives came
on Oct. 2, 2003, two days before archives officials told Berger he was
suspected of removing documents.

Those same officials told the Post that they had five or six drafts of
the Millennium after-action review in their files, all of which were
eventually stolen by Berger. Only two copies were returned, the Post
said, noting, "other drafts of the after-action document, [Archives
officials] said, were apparently discarded."

On Sunday, Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton insisted that
investigators had reviewed every Millennium Review draft that the
Archives had in their files, telling NBC's "Meet the Press," We
believe we've seen all the documents. ... We're quite sure we've seen
all the documents in full."

But the Commission's first staff statement on any topic wasn't
released till Jan. 26, 2004 - a full four months after Berger had
destroyed most of the copies of the Millennium after-action review
stored at the Archives.

While Democrats have argued that the Millennium reports destroyed by
Berger were copies, the New York Post reported on Friday, "Officials
say it is possible he also got some unique documents directly from the
files" - an apparent reference to oringinal handwritten notes made by
senior Clinton officials on the draft copies.

Neither Hamilton nor Commission Chairman Tom Kean have given any
public assurances that every draft of the Millennium review, complete
with original notes, had been seen by investigators before Berger
destroyed them.



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