Sandy Berger

So it was in the presidential suite of the Intercontinental Hotel in Athens.

I go there and it's President Clinton, Secretary of State Albright, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, the ambassador, and me.

It's the Greek prime minister, foreign minister, defense minister, and the Greek note taker.

There is a series of folding tables, like three folding tables just covered in food.

And what did he mean by taking the gloves off?

So he asked his national security advisor, Sandy Berger, to ask George Tenet if, if we wanted to take the gloves off, which means significantly degrade Al-Qaeda and its capability to attack US interests, and there were no, there were no constraints on resources, and there were no constraints on presidential authorities.

You know, when we do a covert action, and degrading a terrorist group is a covert action, when we do a covert action, the president actually has to give us specific authorities.

"You can do this, you can do this, you can do this." Um, and so no constraints on either one of those.

Sandy Berger wanted to know.

We gave him a plan.

It was called the Blue Sky Plan, and it was aimed at attacking Al-Qaeda wherever it was in the world.

And they put this under here and I don't know why, but this is a separate claim in my opinion.

So Sandy Berger, Samuel Sandy Berger, worked for President Clinton as the national security advisor.

And Sandy Berger was tried in court and found guilty of acquiring secret documents about the 9-11 event and destroying them.

And now we don't know what they say.

So they had evidence about this event that was destroyed by official members of the government.

Yeah, he was tipped off.

And there's a lot of talk that it was Sandy Berger who tipped him off.

Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but that was the talk.

But I don't think there's any doubt that he was tipped off and that these computers were removed.

Yeah, he was tipped off.

And there's a lot of talk that it was Sandy Berger who tipped him off.

Now, I don't know if that's true or not, but that was the talk.

But I don't think there's any doubt that he was tipped off and that these computers were removed.

He wrote, Tenet wrote a personal letter to President Clinton begging him for more resources because our resources were being cut, like I just talked about, begging the president for more resources to in order to deal with Al Qaeda.

When the bombing of the coal happened, the president and his national security advisor, Sandy Berger, wanted to take the gloves off and go after Al Qaeda.

Yeah, this is fall of 2000.

Clinton has a couple of months left in office.

It's, so that was an incorrect statement.

It brings up a lar- and this was, I was kind of surprised how everybody sh- was shocked by those memos that were released, because as you remember, uh, Sandy Berger, the National Security Advisor of Bill Clinton, went into the National Archives and took out a document-

That's right

... that s- that said that Bin Laden, uh, they had, they were offered Bin Laden to be extradited.

It was either by Pa- uh, Pakistanis, and they said, "We have him, and we will send him to you." And on the memo they did not want him.

And Sandy Berger was very worried, 'cause there was a documentary about it, and he thought they would use that.

'Cause it was in the archives.

And so he went in there and stole it, stuck it in his trousers-