Controversy surrounded and continues to surround Samuel Sandy Berger when he was fined $50,000 by Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson on September 8, 2005 for mishandling of sensitive and classified documents. Berger also lost his security clearance for three years. What are the facts regarding the Sandy Berger scandal?
Sandy Berger pled guilty.
Sandy Berger admitted to deliberately pilfering classified documents from the National Archives. Five documents about the Clinton administrations actions regarding the millennium attack plots went missing and Berger admitted to taking all of them. He also admitted to taking home notes which he himself made in the course of his visits to the Archives.
At first, Sandy Berger held that he inadvertently stuffed in the classified documents with his other notes and papers. However, he soon admitted that his actions were deliberate. It would be quite difficult to prove that he inadvertently took both sets of documents both times in September and October and that he inadvertently cut the first set up.
Sandy Berger destroyed three of the five documents.
Sandy Berger visited the Archives on September 2003 and...
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