Rush Limbaugh: What Papers Were Worth Berger Risking It All?

I'm more convinced more than ever, based on what I've heard of this report so far, that it might've been the Democrats, knowing that Sandy Berger was in serious trouble, who leaked his problem so it wouldn't come up closer to the election. There is nothing in this report that the White House – which saw the report a long while before now -- would want to leak this to "cover up," as the Democrats charge. F. Lee Levin, our legal advisor here, went back and did some research last night into Clinton apologist / spinmeister Lanny Davis.

In his book, Davis wrote: "When bad news is coming, get your version, an alternative story line, out first." Davis gives an example of some damning information about Clinton that they leaked to the Associated Press – which, by the way, was first to get the Berger leak. I'm not saying there was any connection or attaching any name to this. I'm just telling you this book was written by Davis.

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial says that the partisanship in reaction to the Berger leak is "worse than what Berger did or is just as bad." That's how you create the alternative story line when you're leaking something that's bad for you: blame the other guys and come up with this alternative story line -- in this case, that story line was "the nature of the timing." The Washington Post has finally delved into this after burying it on the first couple of days. It turns out the employees at the National Archives suspected Berger, and set up a sting to catch him taking these documents on the Al-Qaeda millennium terrorist bombing plot.

The Post: "Berger found himself in a criminal investigation, one that he chose not to tell Kerry's campaign about until this week." We don't know that, of course. That's simply what he claims. Similarly, they report as fact Berger's assertion that "despite searching his home and office (he) couldn't find" the classified documents he illegally took with him. "An archives employee called former White House Deputy Council Bruce Lindsey to talk about this." Bruce Lindsey was the Fixer, capital F, who handled all the Clinton cover-ups. So you've got somebody here a government official with knowledge of the investigation, called Clinton's guy, while the Democrats are out there trying to say that the Bush team was in on this and leaking all this stuff. Lindsey and Berger, by the way, were both with Clinton when he testified to the commission -- the myth that he brilliantly testified alone while Bush needed Cheney there is officially B.S. thanks to NewsMax.

We now know Bill Clinton probably knew about this before George Bush did. The Post reports that Berger "took 40 to 50 pages of notes"! Now, you can take notes, but you can't take them with you – and you certainly can't stuff them in your pants, socks, briefcase, etc. The question remains: What papers were important enough for Sandy Berger to risk his reputation and career and fall on his sword for this way? What did he take notes on? That's what needs to be released here. Not who leaked what and not the timing. We don't need to hear about what a great public servant this guy is or was.

Speaking of which, I urge you to read the column by Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief, chairman and co-owner of the liberal (though not as liberal as it once was) New Republic and a big friend of Algore. He's known Berger since the McGovern campaign, but says he does not like him because Berger "believes there is no international dispute that can't be solved by the U.S. walking away from it." Quote: "Berger did run the Kerry foreign policy team at the writing of the Democratic Party platform a few weeks ago when the only opposition easily pacified came from a handful of Dennis Kucinich loyalists." The Kucinich dream won't die.

"So my question," writes Mr. Peretz, "is, did Berger, who knew that he was under scrutiny since last fall, alert Kerry to the combustible fact that he was the subject of a criminal probe by the justice department, the FBI? My guess is not. Kerry is far too smart, too responsible to have kept him around had he known. But if Kerry didn't know, it tells you a lot about Berger. Too much, really." A more important question, of course, is: What was contained in the papers that Berger snatched? The answers to that question might answer another. Maybe Clinton's top national security aide didn't want others to see what they documented.

Several hypotheses are listed below.

Anyone is possible motive. The last is a possible threat.

Sandy Berger-Burglar was a key beneficiary of "Gorelick’s Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen

John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)

Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
– and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt

Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that
Burger “was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press” .
The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp

Dick Morris noted Berger “seemed to work overtime
at opposing tough measures against terror”,
advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding
and working to block antiterror sanctions.
Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824

Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry

Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter

Berger allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.
NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe

Berger was singled-out by UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq].
"Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter

Berger admitted that the Clinton Administration failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda
National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry

Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey

Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.

It was Berger whose calls Bill Clinton ducked in 1998 when bin Laden was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.
US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003

"Mr. Berger, please this is urgent.
We can take out Osama, now. Please answer!!! We have him in our sight."

Berger-Burglar: "Nope. Forgetaboutit. No big deal. I am watching the West Wing."

"I was summoned to the office of National Security adviser Sandy Berger,
who chewed me out for not having a national security adviser (on the West Wing).
So I opened the next season with Anna Deavere Smith as the national security adviser" -
Aaron Sorkin

Lucky-to-have-only-been-Impeached, about the 911 Commission
with his, Document-Procurer-temporarily-on-Loan-to-Kerry, Sandy (the) NSA Burglar:
[quietly, out of the side of his mouth]
"Sandy, are you absolutely d@amn positively certain you took
each and every one of the important classified documents?
Sandy, I'm warning you, if you f&ck this up, she'll put us both into Fort Marcy Park."

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