CNN.com - Berger says he made 'honest mistake' - Jul 21, 2004: "Breuer strongly denied information from law enforcement sources that an Archives staffer told investigators Berger also placed something in his socks.

'That's categorically false and ridiculous,' he said, adding that such an allegation had never been made by prosecutors and first surfaced Monday in the media.

Asked why Berger removed the notes if he knew it was a violation of policy, Breuer said 'because there's something more important than Archives' procedure, and that's the hard work of the 9/11 commission.'

'Sandy Berger knew that he was going to be asked questions about what happened in the early '90s and mid-'90s and that the 9/11 commission and the families of those victims had a right to know what happened,' he said. 'Sandy's acknowledged from the beginning that it was a mistake in judgment.'

As for the missing Millennium document, Breuer said it was an assessment prepared by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke at Berger's request. He said the contents of the document are 'widely known' and have been written about in books and magazines."