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What if he admitted that he took the documents at the behest of one off the Klintons, or Kerry?

Exactly the type of question that should be "thoroughly investigated."

The documents that weren't recovered sound as if they would have been the most valuable to have disappear for Clinton and the others the most useful for Kerry.

Seems as if Clinton has a prior history of leniency when it comes to breach of protocol in handling classified documents:
(quoted from NYT article on Berger )

Before that, John Deutch, a former C.I.A. director, became the subject of an embarrassing inquiry into whether he had downloaded classified intelligence documents to an unsecured personal computer that he used to gain access to Internet sites. On his final day in office, President Clinton pardoned Mr. Deutch, who was in the midst of negotiating a plea agreement with prosecutors on charges stemming from the accusations.

As well, I am reading various articles, and while it does seem Berger is admitting he inadvertently took documents, the disparity between the Archive staff's version that he stuffed the documents in his clothing and Berger's "admission" that the documents got mixed in with a selection of documents to read later and shoved in his portfolio is a fairly large gap in a description of what really occurred.

IIRC, Nixon went down for the cover-up attempt, not for any knowledge of the break-in.

Wonder if that will be an apt analogy in this case.