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The unanswered question is whether there were other copies of these draft versions. We know there were other copies of the final Millenium AAR, which was reportedly rather critical of the government's successes in 1999-2000 (the big catch was by a Border Patrol agent who never heard about any of the heightened security measures). If there were no other copies of the working drafts, maybe he was trying to get rid of earlier versions which painted a different picture, whether rosier or more negative. Or maybe he had doodled in the margins about nachos. Or maybe, while Richard Clarke was reviewing the findings, he was doodling all over his copy "Sandy Berger Clinton XXOO" with a heart in place of the dot on the "i" in Clinton. Or maybe he was a complete slob and inadvertently took all those drafts and lost them.
BTW, I'm preaching to the choir here, but why is there not more outrage over the fact that, giving Berger every benefit of the doubt, the Advisor to the President for National Security Affairs routinely took top secret documents out of SCIFs and lost them. This, of course, is on top of having a DCI who lost his security clearance because he took classified information home with him and put it on his home computer.
We had removable hard drives on our computers. Hard drives on which classified information were locked in the safe every day. Only unclassified hard drives could be used to access the Internet. And Intellink was run on separate computers with separate routers and separate everything so it could not be hacked into. And the DCI just copies classified information on a floppy, sticks it in his pocket, and puts it in the same computer he uses to buy socks on eBay?
Hanlon's Razor says "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Apparently, that has become the primary legal strategy of members of the Clinton Administration.
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