Quite an admission of guilt, lying and attempted cover up by the Clinton's National Security Advisor.

Rather than misplacing or unintentionally throwing away three of the five copies he took from the archives, as the former national security adviser earlier maintained, he shredded them with a pair of scissors late one evening at the downtown offices of his international consulting business.
Under terms negotiated by Berger's attorneys and the Justice Department, he has agreed to pay a $10,000 fine and accept a three-year suspension of his national security clearance. These terms must be accepted by a judge before they are final, but Berger's associates said yesterday he believes that closure is near on what has been an embarrassing episode during which he repeatedly misled people about what happened

So just what does one have to do to lose their security clearance permanently? Join Al Quaeda? And we sent Martha Stewart to jail for lying about a stock sale??? Guess that being politically connected is better than being a billionairess.

My take was that the disengenuous bastard sissored the documents that had historically embarrasing notations in the margins by previous Clinton administration readers.