Disbarment OKd for Clinton aide

Sandy Berger, a national security advisor to President Clinton, was voluntarily disbarred from the practice of law by the D.C. Court of Appeals.

Berger agreed last month to relinquish his law license to the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility, a part of the D.C. Bar, rather than submit to an investigation by the bar’s counsel of his removal of classified documents from the National Archives. A three-member panel of the D.C. appellate court approved the plan.

Berger pleaded guilty in April 2005 to taking classified material without authorization, a misdemeanor. He was fined $50,000 and barred from access to classified material for three years.