Putting them in his socks was pure absent-mindedness

The New York Post has an update on a very strange political story:

WASHINGTON — The criminal probe into why former Bill Clinton aide Sandy Berger illegally sneaked top-secret documents out of the National Archives — possibly in his socks — has heated up and is now before a federal grand jury....

Berger admits removing 40 to 50 top-secret documents from the archives, but claims it was an "honest mistake" made while he vetted documents for the 9/11 commission's probe into the Twin Towers attacks....Berger has also acknowledged that he destroyed some documents — he says by accident....The probe was touched off last spring when stunned archives staffers reported seeing Berger sneak classified documents out of a top-secret reading room in his pants and socks while vetting Clinton-era items for the commission.

This probably amounts to nothing more than political CYA, but Holy Cow, folks, this is scummy behavior. Scummy. People who do this kind of stuff are not respectable people who respectable people should allow into their homes. Stealing documents from the National Archives and destroying them because they are EMBARRASSING? Who did Berger never have sex with?