Even if this is true Swopa, I still have the following concerns:

1. I find it beyond credulity that the former National Security Advisor (!!) could have so flagrantly ignored and abused security protocol. To a certain extent, I would cut him some slack during the halcyon, laid back Clinton era–but certainly not post 9/11. And certainly not in view of his purpose and the subject matter of the materials.

2. Even if all the originals are still within the Archives, it does not explain the “smuggling” action by Berger nor the risk that the removed copies could have fallen in the wrong hands.

I find the ‘dishevelled absent-minded professor’ defense an insult to anyone’s intelligence. The man should be booted forever for dangerous disorganization, alone, then.