Posted on 07/21/2004 3:17:52 PM PDT by theophilusscribe
It’s the same stuff on a different day. I am outraged, but I really should not be surprised. Sandy Berger has stolen documents—National Security documents—during a time of war. All of his defenders are saying that this is no big deal. Hmm. No big deal.
The first AP article about this scandal suggested that the documents contained “identification of America's terror vulnerabilities at airports to sea ports.” These are the same documents that are now lost and perhaps unrecoverable. Maybe lost in Sandy Berger’s alleged stacks and piles of papers? Of course, the FBI searched his home and office and did not find them. Maybe Sandy cast them carelessly into his trash? No matter. It is no big deal. Sandy’s just sloppy.
I’m glad he cares so much about our National Security. Thank God we had such a vigilant and prudent man at the helm of our Homeland Defense.
You know, I won’t even throw away receipts with my credit card number on them without shredding them first. It’s because I fear identity theft. I fear someone taking my information and misusing it. I can’t imagine being the type of person who digs through people’s garbage in order to get these precious bits of identification, but they’re out there. Collecting receipts and other good bits of information. Hey, I got news for them: Sandy’s sloppy. And he’s loaded. Go to town, mates.
And this is where my blood pressure really gets going. It is not bad enough that our National Security has been compromised. And it most definitely was. I mean, let’s face it—no one believes this was a mistake. The first time it could have been a mistake. The second time, after being confronted by the archivists, it was brazen theft. The third, fourth, and fifth times it was a full-on cover-up. What is so important to hide that he has to go back five times?
And they have the gall to come out and say that Sandy’s sloppy? As if that were ok? As if it is enough to explain it all away?
I suppose that Jayson Blair was just being sloppy with the facts when he fabricated all of those stories for the New York Times. I suppose that the terrorists over in Iraq were just sloppily giving Michael Berg a shave when they inadvertently cut off his head. And I imagine that that was just some sloppy flying on 9.11.
Sometimes being sloppy is more appropriately called gross negligence. A surgeon leaves a scalpel inside his patient. A chef pours rat poison into a recipe instead of sugar or flour.
And sometimes being sloppy is just a cheap misnomer for getting caught with your pants stuffed with information that only a handful of people in this nation have access to.
Why is this coming out now? I don’t have an answer for that. Maybe the White House leaked it for political gain (it would have been more useful during Abu Ghraib, guys). And maybe Berger’s attorneys thought they’d get out in front and frame their defense (how Clintonesque!). My question is—who kept it covered up this long? Accountability suggests that this infraction on Mr. Berger’s part should have been revealed as soon as it happened. After all, such a sloppy guy needs help, right?
Let me tell you something: I believe that Sandy is sloppy. I believe he was sloppy with our National Security when he was head of National Security. I believe he was sloppy in defending our country and protecting us. And now he’s doing a sloppy job of covering it up.
Tell the 9.11 Commission we’ve got the missing link. We know why it was so easy for Al-Qaeda to attack us. Sandy’s sloppy. Too bad Bin Laden had his act together.
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Good one. . .
And X42 said that they were "laughing about it." They all ought to go to jail.
Thanks! I had to express my consternation.
:o)
Who kept it covered up? Well, Clinton for one. In his interview he said that they'd known about this, "for a long time." That was right before he said that he thought it was "funny".
Are they trying to say that Kerry didn't know? Who was benefiting from this theft? Clinton or Kerry? I say we need a full scale investigation -- and Berger stays in jail while we sort this all out.
BTW, they searched Berger's CLOTHES HAMPER when searching for these papers. Unbelievable. If you put this in a movie the fans would walk out and the critics would give it 1/2 star.
That's an unhappy thought! No, those docs are far gone.
And yes, I believe Kerry knew and used whatever he could to make political gains in his speeches. Anything else would have been vastly out of character.
Remember this memo?
SEAN HANNITY INTERCEPTS DEVASTATING DEMOCRAT MEMO FROM INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1014665/posts
Anybody who has not seen tang-soo's explanation of security procedures must make sure they do:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175467/posts?page=13#13
There is ZERO chance that Berger did this "inadvertently".
ZERO.
There is something he and/or others did not want the 911 Commission to see here.
Gosh, I really hope you're wrong!
EXCELLENT! Thanks so much!
I think he should be tried for treason along with Clinton for purposely doing nothing and hiding documents that could have saved 3,000 american lives.
I think he's already coming to the rescue, in a manner of speaking. Its just a really, really weak defense.
Wow! tang-soo's explanation needs wide publication.
good post! - I just read another post which seems to confirm my suspicions about Berger which go way back to the mid-90's. That, basically, Berger is way out of his league as a serious top-level government administrator. Sloppy with our national security fits neatly into my picture of him.
Yep. . . and maybe even more than that. Considering Clinton knew of Bin Laden's threats, had he gone after Bin Laden seriously, who knows what all he may have prevented. Both of them are umitigated cowards.
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