WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) — Samuel “Sandy” Berger, national security adviser in the Clinton administration, died of cancer Wednesday at age 70, his firm announced.
Berger was President Bill Clinton’s top foreign policy adviser during his 1992 presidential campaign and deputy national security adviser. Berger became national security adviser in 1997 at the start of Clinton’s second term. Berger oversaw expansions of free trade in Africa and Asia, the response to the 1998 al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, and the NATO-led bombing of Kosovo.
After leaving government he founded Stonebridge International, now Albright Stonebridge, a Washington-based advisory group.
Earlier this week World Food Program USA awarded Berger its Global Humanitarian award.
In 2005 he pleaded guilty to removing highly classified documents from the National Archives, attempting to take them from the building by hiding them in his clothes. He was fined $50,000, received two years’ probation and was stripped of his security clearance. He gave up is license to practice law in 2007 after a Justice Department investigation and congressional hearings.
Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president, referred to Berger in a Twitter message as a “good man and friend who served [the] nation well.”
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