Not suprisingly, the Sandy Berger story just keeps getting worse for him. The Washington Post (from page A6) and the Ny Daily News both have articles with more troubling accusations that would seem to make his 'sloppy' and 'inadvertant' defenses laughable.

... Berger repeatedly persuaded monitors assigned to watch him review top-secret documents to break the rules and leave him alone ... got the monitors out of the high-security room by telling them he had to make sensitive phone calls ... also took "lots of bathroom breaks" that aroused some suspicion.

...Archives employees were deferential toward Berger, given his prominence, but were worried when he returned to view more documents on Oct. 2. They devised a coding system and marked the documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, and watched him carefully. They knew he was interested in all the versions of the millennium review, some of which bore handwritten notes from Clinton-era officials who had reviewed them. At one point an Archives employee even handed Berger a coded draft and asked whether he was sure he had seen it.

At the end of the day, Archives employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the millennium memo had disappeared from the files, this source said.

The Wash Post article is also full of denials from Berger thru his attorney's. He disputes that he stuffed docs into his clothing (but from the exact quotes I've seen, its only the socks that are in question - so this could be a screw up by the WP), he disputes the timeline of the investigation, and he disputes the nature of the investigation. Given all those denials/disputes, this story still has a huge amount of potential to get very ugly for Berger

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