Sunday, April 03, 2005
 NEW YORK POST April 2, 2005: WASHINGTON — A contrite former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger pleaded guilty yesterday to pilfering classified documents from the National Archives, saying he showed "very poor judgment" and that his actions were "wrong."
Berger, former President Bill Clinton's top national security aide, appeared poker-faced during a court hearing as his lawyers and federal prosecutors presented a plea deal before federal Magistrate Deborah Robinson surrounding his removal of documents about the fight against al Qaeda.
Berger was preparing for upcoming testimony before the 9/11 commission.
The deal reached between his lawyers and the Justice Department called for Berger to plead guilty to one count of unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents and to pay a $10,000 fine and lose his security clearance for three years.
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Berger also admitted he took the documents to his office and cut up three copies with scissors despite knowing, as a former government official who once had access to the nation's most closely guarded secrets, that they were classified.
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