John Kerry’s presidential campaign accused the Bush White House yesterday of disclosing the existence of a criminal investigation against former national security adviser Sandy Berger for political advantage. Berger is accused of taking secret documents from the National Archives while reviewing Clinton administration records for the 9/11 commission. In a political memo distributed by e-mail, the Kerry campaign charged that the objective of the leak was to take attention away from the 9-11 commission’s final report which comes out today. The criminal investigation of Berger began last October but only came to light this week. Meanwhile, the head of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe, filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the release of any correspondence between the Justice Department and the White House on the Berger probe. Republicans have accused Bill Clinton’s former national Security Advisor of stealing the documents for use by Kerry’s campaign. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the White House had nothing to do with the disclosure that Berger was under investigation. He said officials in the White House legal counsel’s office were made aware of the Berger investigation some time ago because they were in charge of putting together documents for the Sept. 11 commission to see.