Sandy Berger Disbars Himself

Sandy "Pants" Berger voluntarily gives up his law license so the DC bar will stop asking questions (about the documents he destroyed). A stunning move. Why?

Perhaps the documents shed some light on what the Clinton administration knew and when they knew it. Obviously they have been worried about something damning coming out for some time. Ronald Cass, RCP:

President Clinton designated Berger as his representative to the 9/11 Commission and related hearings, which gave Berger special access to highly classified documents in the National Archives relating to the Clinton Administration's handling of al-Qaeda and similar terror threats. Berger got around rules requiring that the documents only be reviewed with Archives' employees present, purposefully stole documents, destroyed them, and lied about it all. When caught, he first blamed Archives employees for misplacing the documents, then admitted having taken them inadvertently (this is the point at which he cut the plea deal), and finally acknowledged what was obvious from the facts that were emerging - he intentionally removed and destroyed documents.

We still don't know what the documents were and what was in them:

The most likely explanation is that the material Berger destroyed points to a terrible mistake by Berger himself, by President Clinton, or by both. In dealing with al-Qaeda, did they overlook a critical piece of information or miss a chance to stop 9/11? Did the Administration's failure to take a more aggressive posture encourage al-Qaeda's later attacks?

When Fox News' Chris Wallace raised the possibility that Clinton's Administration might have done something more to prevent 9/11, Bill Clinton went into an inexplicable rage on national television. Wallace touched a nerve. So did the DC Bar.

(Post on that, back in September: Clinton Cracks Up). Cass has more to say on the implications for Hillary's run, and on the unnerving silence that surrounds this cover-up.