Telltale Evidence? Did Presidential Adviser Sandy Berger Contact the Authorities?

Did Sandy Berger contact the Secret Service about this letter?  If not, why not?  How can a person write a letter like this to a presidential adviser at the White House and get away with it?

June 9, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW #136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

Samuel Berger, Esq.
The White House
Washington, DC 20006

RE: Weapons Possession - Intent to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm/Possible Intent to Commit Murder - D.C. Corporation Counsel Affirmation - Possible Concealment of State and/or Federal Weapons Law Violations

Dear Mr. Berger:

During the period March 1988 to October 1991 I was employed as a legal assistant at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld ("Akin Gump"). Attorney managers at Akin Gump terminated my employment effective October 29, 1991 upon determining, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that a complaint of harassment I had lodged against several coworkers was attributable to a psychiatric symptom ("ideas of reference") prominent in the psychotic disorders and typically associated with a risk of violent behavior. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court no. MPA 95-14 (final order issued June 10, 1996) (name of state court judge redacted at the implicit direction of the Justice Department). In the period immediately after my job termination senior Akin Gump managers determined that it was advisable to secure the office of my direct supervisor against a possible homicidal assault, which it was feared I might commit.

The District of Columbia Office of Corporation Counsel (Charles F.C. Ruff, Esq.) has expressly affirmed that the fears of a former coworker at Akin Gump that I might have had the intent to acquire firearms for an unlawful purpose and inflict grievous bodily harm or commit murder were genuine and not evidence of a hostile, offensive or intimidating work environment. See Letter to Eric H. Holder, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, dated December 23, 1996, a copy of which is enclosed.

During the period September 1985 to February 1988 I served a long-term temporary legal assistant assignment, as an employee of the temporary agency Personnel Pool, at the law firm of Hogan and Hartson, of which you were formerly a member. I was assigned to work within the Computer Applications Department of Hogan and Hartson during the tenure of Hogan and Hartson legal assistant administrator Freddie Rios, now employed by the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.

I have been under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to President William J. Clinton, and was interrogated at the Washington Field Office by Special Agent Philip C. Leadroot (202 435-5100) as recently as February 1996, about 16 months ago.

I request that you candidly disclose to federal authorities any information, rumor, or reputation evidence derived from my assignment at Hogan and Hartson, that in any way supports Akin Gump's concerns--affirmed as genuine by the D.C. Office of Corporation Counsel (Charles F.C. Ruff, Esq.)--relating to my potential for violence, intent to acquire firearms, or intent to inflict grievous bodily harm (or commit murder).

You may review this matter with Philip C. Leadroot, S.A., U.S. Secret Service, (202) 435 5100, or David M. Bowie, FBI Supervisory Special Agent (Washington Metropolitan Area Field Office) (202) 252 7801.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman