The criminal probe into why former Bill Clinton aide Sandy Berger illegally sneaked top-secret documents out of the National Archives — possibly in his socks — has heated up and is now before a federal grand jury, The Post has learned.
The "Socks Docs" probe forced Berger, who was President Clinton's national security adviser, to step down as Democrat John Kerry's top foreign-policy adviser last summer. "It may have been off the front pages, but the investigation has been active," said a source with knowledge of the probe. "[Berger] has been interviewed several times by federal agents — FBI and prosecutors."
Berger admits removing 40 to 50 top-secret documents from the archives, but claims it was an "honest mistake" made while he vetted documents for the 9/11 commission's probe into the Twin Towers attacks. Berger has also acknowledged that he destroyed some documents — he says by accident.
I was wondering what happened to Sandy Sock-it, and I admit to being a tad fascinated in whether the Grand Jury will buy into the it-got-into-my-socks/pants-by-accident defense; though how you claim it was an accident when 40 odd documents goes missing seems a bit of a stretch on human imagination in the first place. I would have loved to been a fly on the wall during that questioning.
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