BBC “inadvertently” takes Berger at his word.

This article is either laughable in its gullibility (at taking Berger for a truthteller) or despicable (for enabling him to lie). How did former National Security Advisor (for President Clinton), Samuel Berger, “inadvertently” remove said documents from the US Senate 9-11 archives? Whether they managed to find their way into his socks, it must have been, no doubt, an accident. Here is blogger Hugh Hewitt‘s take on this:

This isn’t just the possibly criminal action of one man, it is the conduct of the senior White House foreign policy official from the Clinton era, and the action of a confidant and advisor to John Kerry. Had Rice been the one caught tampering with the records of the Bush Administration relating to terrorism, Rice would already have been forced by a baying press to resign, and Bush would be threatened with a Watergate-style meltdown. But it is a pro-Kerry media, so watch for Berger’s attempted cover-up to get its own cover-up.

To the credit of the BBC, they do end the article with this note:

Mr Berger served as President Clinton’s national security adviser from 1997 to 2001 and is currently advising Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Maybe a scandal surrounding a former Clinton Administration official is not that newsworthy, except that, like Joe Wilson, Berger is a John Kerry advisor.

UPDATE: He has resigned from the Kerry Campaign.