Berger also advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing and responses to the terrorist bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania . In the final years of the Clinton administration , combating terrorism was the paramount foreign policy priority ; Berger said in his March 2005 oral history interview at UVA 's Miller Center , " I said to Condoleezza Rice during the transition ... that the number-one issue that she would deal with as national security advisor was terrorism in general and al-Qaeda specifically . " In November 1997 , Berger paid a $ 23,000 civil penalty to settle conflict of interest allegations stemming from his failure to sell his stock of Amoco Corporation as ordered by the White House . Berger was advised by the White House to sell the stock in early 1994 . He said he had planned to sell the stock , but then forgot . He denied knowingly participating in decisions in which he had a financial interest . With no evidence that Berger intended to break the law , the United States Department of Justice determined a civil penalty was adequate for a " non-willful violation " of the conflict of interest law
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