Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>So why did the FBI sit back and watch him stuff documents in his shorts and leave the building? Can you answer that?<<<


No I can't because that's not what appears to have happened. Best I can tell from this account there were three separate visits. Two where according to the FBI he was under "constant supervision" and then the third meeting where there seems to have been a lapse in supervision and that's when the crime took place.


"On December 20, 2006, more than a year after Berger plead guilty and was sentenced, a report issued by the archives inspector detailed how Berger had perpetrated the crime. Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that Berger took a break to go outside without an escort. "In total, during this visit, he removed four documents ... Mr. Berger said he placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)." Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.

It states that the FBI or the Department of Justice never questioned Berger about two earlier visits he made on May 30, 2002 and July 18, 2003, when he reviewed White House working papers not yet inventoried by the National Archives, and speculates that, had Berger previously been entirely successful in actions at which he was later caught, "nobody would know they were gone." It also contains the FBI's statement as to why they concluded there was no exposure on those dates: "Berger was under constant supervision"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Berger