drishti current affairs magazine

drishti current affairs magazine

drishti current affairs magazine published this article page no 8 controversy surrounded and continues to surround samuel sandy berger when he was fined $50000 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 october 2003.  on his first visit he took three documents and on his second visit he took two documents.  he took scissors to the first three documents from his september visit.  the last two documents were returned to the archives after the officials contacted berger about the missing documents. these documents were all about the clinton administrations memos about the millennium attack plots drishti current affairs buy online.

drishti current affairs magazine