You remember Sandy Berger, right?
Sandy Berger, was one a national security advisor under the Clinton administration and was caught taking classified documents pertaining to Al Qaeda actions against the United States before September 11th. He had the highest security clearance granted by the government. So he had access to just about anything.
Now read the papers about these documents he took and the MSM will helpfully suggest that these were all copies of a particular document. Captain Ed brings up the excellent point that:
They were not exact copies; each memo started off as a copy of an original draft by Richard Clarke, but the memos had handwritten notes from each recipient as comments, requests for revision, and suggestions for possible action. Each document was unique, and their destruction by Mr. Scissors means that we will never know what some did with Clarke's information. All we know is that it must have reflected badly on Berger, Clinton, or both. Otherwise, why would Berger destroy them?
What really bothers me is that the safety and protection of the American people was not as important as covering his own butt and all he is set to receive as punishment is a $10,000 fine and he will have to surrender his security clearance...for three years.
Really? So after three years he can resume stealing classified documents from the archives?
Why not? It's not like he intended to destroy documents related to the national security country and that these particular documents were being asked for by the 9/11 commission to determine how to better secure this nation. Really, it's not like he committed treason or anything.
Oh.