THE TENSION: What Did Sandy Berger Hide From the 9/11 Commission?

He agreed to a polygraph test before the Justice Department decided not to give one.
Ol' "Docs in his Sox" Berger is back in the news:

All things being equal, why does the Justice Department's case against Scooter Libby deserve more attention than their case against Berger? Perhaps it is easier for Hillary to run for president on Bill Clinton's legacy if that legacy remains untarnished by the truth.

The Washington Times reports eighteen House Republicans have urged the Justice Department to proceed with a polygraph test for Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser who agreed to take the test as part of a plea of guilty of stealing documents from the National Archives.
"This may be the only way for anyone to know whether Mr. Berger denied the 9/11 commission and the public the complete account of the Clinton administration's actions or inactions during the lead-up to the terrorist attacks on the United States," the congressmen said in their letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
Berger agreed to a polygraph examination as part of a plea deal, but Justice never administered the test, according to two Justice officials closely connected to the case -- John Dion, chief of the counterespionage section, and Bruce Swartz, deputy assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division.

The Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Tom Davis (R-VA) released a formal statement a few days ago on a committee report that sheds important new light on Sandy Berger’s theft of classified documents from the National Archives. The report makes it clear that the full extent of Mr. Berger’s document removal can never be known, and consequently the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 Commission that it received all responsive documents to which Mr. Berger had access.

“The 9/11 Commission relied on incomplete and misleading information regarding its access to documents Mr. Berger reviewed. No one ever told the Commission that Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection."