Sandy Berger was the National Security Adviser under President Bill Clinton. Per John Kiriakou — illustrating his broader point that “during the Clinton years they were really, really serious about nobody doing anything illegal” — Berger was the official who shut down CIA case officer Bob Baer’s mid-1990s plan to assassinate Saddam Hussein from northern Iraq.[1][2]
Kiriakou: “NSA intercepted one of his communications and sent it to Sandy Berger, who was the National Security Adviser. And Sandy Berger called the CIA and said, ‘Your guy is going to do an extra-constitutional assassination. Either you pull him back, or he’s under arrest for conspiracy.’ So they pulled Bob back out of Iraq.”[2][3]