Over four sessions on March 23-24 and April 13-14, Commission transcripts show a total of 96 references to both the Millennium plot and the after-action review.

Before the Berger document destruction in September and October 2003, however, a search through Commission transcripts covering five separate hearings turns up just five mentions of the Millennium plot.

Berger's attorney, Lanny Breuer, acknowledged to the Washington Post on Sunday that his client's last visit to the National Archives came on Oct. 2, 2003, two days before archives officials told Berger he was suspected of removing documents.

Those same officials told the Post that they had five or six drafts of the Millennium after-action review in their files, all of which were eventually stolen by Berger. Only two copies were returned, the Post said, noting, "other drafts of the after-action document, [Archives officials] said, were apparently discarded."

On Sunday, Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton insisted that investigators had reviewed every Millennium Review draft that the Archives had in their files, telling NBC's "Meet the Press," We believe we've seen all the documents. ... We're quite sure we've seen all the documents in full."

But the Commission's first staff statement on any topic wasn't released till Jan. 26, 2004 - a full four months after Berger had destroyed most of the copies of the Millennium after-action review stored at the Archives.

While Democrats have argued that the Millennium reports destroyed by Berger were copies, the New York Post reported on Friday, "Officials say it is possible he also got some unique documents directly from the files" - an apparent reference to oringinal handwritten notes made by senior Clinton officials on the draft copies.

Neither Hamilton nor Commission Chairman Tom Kean have given any public assurances that every draft of the Millennium review, complete with original notes, had been seen by investigators before Berger destroyed them.

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