Sandy Berger
Samuel "Sandy" Berger R. ( born October 28, 1945 in Sharon, Connecticut) is an American lawyer who was national security adviser to the United States during the second term of President Bill Clinton between 1997 and 2001 and 2005 by was sentenced to a court for theft of secret documents.
Life
Study, a lawyer and campaign team of the Democrats
After schooling Berger studied at Cornell University first, completed his studies in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts ( BA) and became a member of the alumni association Quill and Dagger. A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Harvard University, he finished in 1971 with a Juris Doctor ( JD) cum laude.
Subsequently, he was speechwriter for George McGovern, during his candidacy for the Democratic Party in the presidential election in 1972, and learned during this time also know Bill Clinton. He then took up a career as a lawyer and was 1973-1977 partner of Hogan & Hartson, a law firm based in Washington, DC.
After the election of Jimmy Carter as U.S. president he became in 1977 deputy director for policy planning in the State Department and was as such until 1981 closest collaborator of the former director of policy planning, Anthony Lake, who was his predecessor as national security adviser. After the defeat of Carter against Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election Berger resigned from the government service and returned as a partner to the law firm Hogan & Hartson.
In 1988, he interrupted his local partnership to the democratic candidate to work as a foreign policy adviser to Michael Dukakis in the presidential election in 1988. He then took his partnership at the law firm Hogan & Hartson on again until he joined the campaign team of Clinton in the presidential election in 1992 and there was a senior foreign policy adviser.
National Security Advisor and accused of stealing secret documents
After the election, Clinton as U.S. president in January 1993 he was deputy national security adviser, and thus once again representative of Anthony Lake, former National Security Advisor. In March 1997, he finally followed Lake in the Office of the National Security Adviser and held that post until the end of Clinton's term of office on 20 January 2001.
Following a member of the National Security Advisory Group, a body that advises the Group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate in security issues. In addition, he was again a senior foreign policy adviser during the campaign team of John Kerry in the presidential election of 2004.
However, in July 2004, he stepped down from these two operations after he was accused in the media of stealing secret information. The 9/11 Commission had documents from the Clinton administration, which dealt with the anti-terrorism policy sought, and Clinton had asked Berger to sift through these documents and identify those that should be handed over to the investigation committee. To this end, Berger was granted on July 18, 2nd September and 2 October 2003, the access to documents with high levels of confidentiality in a secure reading room of the National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA).
The Associated Press news agency reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had searched the house and office Bergers in the first half of 2004. Berger explained to the press reports that the would leave the reading room of the NARA only with his handwritten notes, and current with "accidentally" battered copies of secret documents. Due to the strict rules of the NARA but it is not permitted to take " souvenirs ". Moreover, after all the notes have spotted by employees, and the catch must be approved. While the exact content of the documents was not known, however, gave to both Berger and his lawyer that "some documents provided with security classifications " were found in a leather folder Bergers. Both gave to the press that these Bergers and handwritten notes were handed over immediately to the FBI, and the whole tumult exclusively the result of Berger's " inadvertent negligence " was.
On 1 April 2005, he pleaded the mishandling of documents with security classifications guilty. A court sentenced him then in September 2005 to 100 hours of community service and a fine of 50,000 U.S. dollars.
He was also one of the signatories of Global Zero, an application launched in December 2008 initiative, which has a total nuclear disarmament goal worldwide.
Later, Berger Member of the Board of Directors of the global strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group, whose chairman he is now next to the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Warren Rudman.
In addition, Berger engaged in numerous security and foreign political organizations, such as the advisory board America Abroad and the Partnership for a Secure America and in the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Searchlight Leadership Fund.
Publications
- Dollar Harvest: The Story of the Farm Bureau ( 1971)