Posted on 07/20/2004 6:15:31 PM PDT by traumer
Joe Lockhart claims ex-aide didn't hide secret docs in his hose
Former colleagues of Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger challenged allegations that the ex-aide stuffed classified documents in his socks to remove them from a secure reading room prior to his 9-11 Commission testimony.
Federal officials have launched a criminal investigation into the former aide, who now advises Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, for pocketing highly classified terrorism documents.
Though Fox News is reporting Berger and his lawyer said last night he knowingly removed handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket, pants and socks, CNN reports law-enforcement sources say some of the actual secret documents he reviewed were stuffed in his socks before leaving the room.
Joe Lockhart, Clinton's former spokesman, says Berger "categorically denies that he ever took documents and stuffed them in his socks," according to CNN.
"That is absurd," said Lockhart, who is now advising Berger. "And anyone who says that is interested in something other than the truth."
Former Clinton aide Lanny Davis wants the official who leveled the sock-stuffing allegation to come forward and make the claim publicly.
"I suggest that person is lying," the news channel quotes him as saying. "And if that person has the guts, let's see who it is who made the comment that Sandy Berger stuffed something into his socks."
Davis called Berger "a person of impeccable honesty and integrity."
"He spent nights and 24-hour time periods before the millennium doing, I think, a critical job in thwarting a terrorist attack between 1999 and 2000, New Year's Eve," Davis told CNN's "American Morning."
"What we're told ... [is] he took copies of those memos inadvertently in his own notes. There's absolutely no basis for suggesting there is any national security issues here or harm done here."
Berger has said he regrets the "sloppiness" involved in his actions.
Sandy's a socktucker....
Sean threatened to cut his mike if he didn't stop interrupting.
That's not what Lockhart said. He said Berger "categorically denies that he ever took documents and stuffed them in his socks."
So I think we can assume that the documents he stuffed in his socks were the notes he made. The documents he stole, he stuffed somewhere else.
Making his package bigger...LOL
Did Lanny say that with a straight face?
Maybe that's what Billzo is laughing about ~ that the secret of where he hid the secret documents and why he gave "Sox the cat" to Betty Curry is out.
A lying sockpuppet, whose pants are now National Security Breeches.
Playing stupid won't work. Berger cannot be so stupid as to "forget I had them" like he was stuffing McDonald's napkins in his pockets for later use.
Didn't they catch Berglar through a video camera? I would think the tape would tell all. Let's see it and put this to rest.
Joe Lockhart, Clinton's former spokesman, says Berger "categorically denies that he ever took documents and stuffed them in his socks," according to CNN.
ROTFL! He's accused of stuffing documents in his pants, jacket and socks, and his answer is, "I did not stuff documents in my socks."
Sandy Berger wears hose? Garter belt? Panty hose?
The destruction of John Kerry and John Edwards has commenced. Notice the whole Clinton gang has jumped into gear. Bye-bye Kerry/Edwards! This is going to be big time fun! Love it!
I don't care where he put it, he walked out of the Archives with classified material. If memory serves they hauled Wen Ho Lee over the coals for a year or more for something similar.
Lanny Davis: "They weren't his pants!"
Even Ted Bundy had multiple supporters who spoke of his honesty and integrity.
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