From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"James Adams"  wrote in message
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> >What could he
> >possibly have hoped to accomplish?
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> That's what mystifies me - what was he thinking?
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It seems like a CYA moment for Berger

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200407210837.asp
The documents Berger took - each copy of the millennium report is said to
be in the range of 15 to 30 pages - were highly secret. They were
classified at what is known as the "code word" level, which is
the government's highest tier of secrecy. Any person who is authorized to
remove such documents from a special secure room is required to do so in a
locked case that is handcuffed to his or her wrist.

It is not clear why Berger would focus solely on the millennium-plot
report. But it is clear that the report has been the object of intense
discussions during the September 11 investigation.

The report was the result of a review done by Richard Clarke, then the
White House counterterrorism chief, of efforts by the Clinton
administration to stop terrorist plots at the turn of the year 2000. At
several points in the September 11 commission hearings, Democrats pointed
to the millennium case as an example of how a proper counterterrorism
program should be run. But sources say the report suggests just the
opposite. Clarke apparently concluded that the millennium plot was foiled
by luck - a border agent in Washington State who happened to notice a
nervous, sweating man who turned out to have explosives in his car - and
not by the Clinton administration's savvy anti-terrorism work. The report
also contains a number of recommendations to lessen the nation's
vulnerability to terrorism, but few were actually implemented.

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