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9/11 Panel denies Berger probe damage

WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- The Sept. 11 commission said Tuesday its report would not be compromised by the alleged removal of classified documents from the national archive.

Former U.S. National Security Adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger has been under FBI investigation since January after spending three days at the archive examining documents to provide the Clinton administration's responses to inquiries from the commission.

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"We have been assured that we have received copies of everything that was allegedly taken," commission spokesman Al Felzenberg told United Press International. "The integrity of our inquiry and the completeness of our report has not been compromised in any way."

Berger's lawyer has said his actions were the result of "sloppiness," but Republicans have suggested he might have been trying to "rewrite history" or even help the campaign of democratic presidential challenger Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

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