The Truth is Out there...... In Sandy Berger's pants...

The investigation is complete, and Sandy Berger did stuff something down his pant legs. This story would be comical if he wasn't stealing national secrets:

Inspector General Paul Brachfeld reported that National Archives employees spotted Berger bending down and fiddling with something white around his ankles.

The employees did not feel at the time there was enough information to confront someone of Berger's stature, the report said.

Later, when Berger was confronted by Archives officials about the missing documents, he lied by saying he did not take them, the report said.

Brachfeld's report included an investigator's notes, taken during an interview with Berger. The notes dramatically described Berger's removal of documents during an Oct. 2, 2003, visit to the Archives.

Berger took a break to go outside without an escort while it was dark. He had taken four documents in his pockets.

"He headed toward a construction area. ... Mr. Berger looked up and down the street, up into the windows of the Archives and the DOJ (Department of Justice), and did not see anyone," the interview notes said.

He then slid the documents under a construction trailer, according to the inspector general. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and returned with them to his office.

"He was aware of the risk he was taking," the inspector general's notes said. Berger then returned to the Archives building without fearing the documents would slip out of his pockets or that staff would notice that his pockets were bulging.

Err... excuse me, Mr. Burglar...errr.. Burger... are those documents in your pockets, or are you just happy to see us?

Seriously, Berger had to have been in the midst of some major CYA in order to pull a stunt like that. The question remains, what was Sandy Berger hiding? What did the Clinton administration know that they weren't telling the 9/11 commission?

The notes said that Berger had "destroyed, cut into small pieces, three of the four documents. These were put in the trash."

After the trash had been picked up, Berger "tried to find the trash collector but had no luck," the notes said.

Significant portions of the inspector general's report were redacted to protect privacy or national security.

So, ya think that the linguini-spined Republicans will call for a special prosecutor to see just what national security secrets were compromised?

Don't hold your breath.