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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (31580)	4/2/2005 11:47:24 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 90947

Ex-Clinton aide in theft case: 'Guilty, your honor' April 2, 2005 BY MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON -- Sandy Berger, who was President Bill Clinton's top national security aide, pleaded guilty Friday to taking classified documents from the National Archives and cutting them up with scissors. Rather than the ''honest mistake'' he described last summer, Berger acknowledged to U.S. Magistrate Deborah Robinson that he intentionally took and destroyed three copies of the same document dealing with terror threats during the 2000 millennium celebration. ''Guilty, your honor,'' Berger responded when asked how he pleaded. The charge carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine. However, under his plea agreement, Berger would serve no jail time but instead pay a $10,000 fine, surrender his security clearance for three years and cooperate with investigators. The court appearance was the culmination of a bizarre episode in which the man who once had access to the government's most sensitive intelligence was accused of sneaking documents out of the archives. The Bush administration disclosed the investigation in July, just days before the Sept. 11 commission issued its final report. Democrats claimed the White House was using Berger to deflect attention from the harsh findings. After news of the probe surfaced, Berger acknowledged he left the National Archives on two occasions in 2003 with copies of documents about the government's anti-terror efforts and notes that he took on those documents. He said he was reviewing the materials to help determine which Clinton administration documents to provide to the commission investigating Sept. 11. He called the episode ''an honest mistake'' and denied criminal wrongdoing. AP suntimes.com