In one of the highest profile theft cases in National Archives history, former Clinton administration national security adviser Sandy Berger pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing and retaining classified documents. He was fined $50,000, ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and was barred from access to classified material for three years.
According to his guilty plea, Berger acknowledged reviewing documents at the National Archives in summer 2003, then concealed and removed a set of documents.
The Justice Department, in an April 2005 announcement of the guilty plea, said, "Berger, who possessed a United States government security clearance and was aware of the laws and rules regarding classified documents, knew he was not authorized to remove the classified documents from the Archives." Berger died in 2015.