[images and captions added by this website]   David Irving comments: LET US bear in mind that Sandy Berger was the National Security Advisor of the United States at the time.    Now we hear that "earlier this year" his home and office were searched by the FBI, after he removed some top secret items from the National Archives, prior to testifying before the US Senate's 9/11 whitewashing commission. Some documents are still missing, according to the article.    We now hear the usual hilarious legalisms, as website correspondent Robert Willmann of San Antonio, Texas, points out: "I deeply regret" the "sloppiness involved . . . ." "I had no intention of withholding documents . . . ." "To my knowledge," every document requested . . . was produced. I "inadvertently took" a few documents . . . . I "immediately returned" everything . . . except . . . . I "apparently" have "accidently discarded" the documents not returned. It turns out that he removed some of the secret documents stuffed into his underpants. He made handwritten notes while reviewing the documents, and took them out of the public-access Reading Room, too, and although that is a "technical violation" of Archive procedures, it is "not all clear" that "this represents a violation of the law." Obviously Mr. Berger did not remove the documents from the secret National Archives files to give them to a newspaper for publication so that the people might know. They were removed so that the people won't know what was in them. I am reminded of an episode in the old Soviet Union. An archivist there told me that he had seen a five-star general (i.e., a Marshal of the Soviet Union) visit the archives in Kiev, and solemnly tearing pages out of the war diary of his military command -- and seeing nothing wrong in what he was doing.

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