July 22, 2004

AN OBLIQUE REFERENCE TO SANDY BERGER? A reader sends this passage from page xvii of the 9/11 Commission Report:

We have not interviewed every knowledgeable person or found every relevant piece of paper.

Heh. More interesting stuff here.

UPDATE: On Berger, reader Kyle Kveton emails:

Let's leave aside who leaked, why it leaked, or even whether all he took were copies. He has said he "believes" the documents he didn't return were "inadvertently destroyed." What if the "loveably sloppy" former NSA didn't destroy them? What if they're still around--out there somewhere? What assurances can he give us that those highest level classified documents haven't been taken by someone else? Where did he leave them? Were they in his "sloppy office" where a cleaning crew could pick them up? Did he even try to secure them after they were removed from the archives? Let's ask Berger and his lawyers to answer those questions.

I wish somebody would.