Reply #6: Berger to Plead Guilty to Taking Materials

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WASHINGTON - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday.



Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra.


The former Clinton administration official previously acknowledged he removed from the National Archives copies of documents about the government's anti-terror efforts and notes that he took on those documents. He said he was reviewing the materials to help determine which Clinton administration documents to provide to the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.


He called the episode "an honest mistake," and denied criminal wrongdoing.

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