Reply #54: I can make sense of it, I think. [View All]

[Feuerhexe]

Ok, you are Sandy Berger and you take computer print outs from the archive (of several original copies of the same document .. copies of copies) home with you because either a. (stupid, but not so evil) You don't want to be chained to the archive while you work with them or b. (bad and maybe evil) You want someone to see them who legally should not.

Now you have those papers in your office and either you (happy Sandy Berger glasses) want to destroy them so sensitive material does not get out as a result of your dumb decision to take the stuff with you or (evil Sandy Berger glasses) you don't want to get caught with the documents, so you destroy the evidence of your evil deeds. As to why destroy some and not others ... that I don't have a good guess at. It seems to me to point toward the scatter brained defense, but it could be that for whatever reason he wanted to keep a copy for himself to read in the future?

On edit: Square brackets makes things invisible? My whole commenting on my own statements style is going to suffer.