Top News - July 20, 2004
AP: Berger Steps Down As Kerry Adviser Former National Security
Adviser Sandy Berger is seen Sunday, Feb. 22, 1998, in Wa****ngton. Berger,
is the focus of a criminal investigation after admitting he removed highly
classified terrorism do***ents from a secure reading room during
preparations for the Sept. 11 commission hearings, The Associated Press
has
learned. (AP Photo/Brian K. Diggs, ile)
July 20, 2004 03:53 PM EDT
WA****NGTON - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, the subject of
a
criminal investigation over the disappearance of terrorism do***ents,
stepped aside on Tuesday as an informal adviser to Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry.
"Mr. Berger does not want any issue surrounding the 9/11 commission to be
used for partisan purposes. With that in mind he has decided to step aside
as an informal adviser to the Kerry campaign until this matter is
resolved,"
said Lanny Breuer, Berger's attorney.
The investigation had threatened to become a political problem for Kerry a
week before his nominating convention in Boston in which he hopes to
persuade voters that he is ready to be commander in chief. The cornerstone
of Kerry's argument against Bush is that he used faulty intelligence and
poor judgment in waging war against Iraq.
Berger, former President Clinton's national security adviser, is under
criminal investigation by the Justice Department after highly classified
terrorism do***ents disappeared while he was reviewing what should be
turned
over to the Sept. 11 commission.
Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI agents
armed
with warrants after the former Clinton adviser voluntarily returned some
sensitive do***ents to the National Archives and admitted he also removed
handwritten notes he had made while reviewing the sensitive do***ents.
However, some drafts of a sensitive after-action re****t on the Clinton
administration's handling of al-Qaida terror threats during the December
1999 millennium celebration are still missing, officials and lawyers told
The Associated Press.
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Let the name calling begin!!! (its all you libs have)
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