WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- Former U.S. national security adviser Samuel "Sandy" Berger is under FBI investigation for removing classified documents from the National Archives.
Berger spent three days at the archives last summer and fall examining documents to provide the Clinton administration's responses to inquiries from the presidential commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The commission's report is scheduled for release Thursday.
His attorney, Lanny Breur, told the Washington Post Berger inadvertently took copies of several versions of a memo on the millennium bombing plot from the archives last fall, one or more of the copies were then inadvertently discarded.
Berger's actions, said Breuer, were the result of "sloppiness" and were unintentional, and the Justice Department and the FBI have informed him Berger is the subject of a criminal probe but not a target.
The inspector general of the archives began an investigation last October and turned it over to the FBI in January. FBI agents searched Berger's office and home safe, and the investigation is continuing, Breuer said.
Sept. 11 commission spokesman Al Felzenburg told United Press International "the integrity of our inquiry and the completeness of our report has not been compromised in any way."
