Whitey: "As Democrats, we are ALL above the law, suckers"
Posted on 01/09/2007 1:55:36 PM PST by Risha
Edited on 01/09/2007 2:23:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Did the 9/11 Commission receive all the documents it requested?
Davis Releases Berger Report January 9, 2007
By David Marin (202)225-5074
Washington, D.C. – Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Tom Davis (R-VA) released the following statement today on a committee report that sheds important new light on Sandy Berger’s theft of classified documents from the National Archives. The report makes it clear that the full extent of Mr. Berger’s document removal can never be known, and consequently the Department of Justice could not assure the 9/11 Commission that it received all responsive documents to which Mr. Berger had access.
“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience.
“The 9/11 Commission relied on incomplete and misleading information regarding its access to documents Mr. Berger reviewed. No one ever told the Commission that Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection.
“We now know that Mr. Berger left stolen highly classified documents at a construction site to avoid detection. We know that Mr. Berger insisted on privacy at times to allow him to conceal documents that he stole. One witness with a very high security clearance believed he saw Berger concealing documents in his socks.
“Mr. Berger’s review of documents did not conform to the usual requirements for reviewing classified documents in a secure facility and under strict supervision. The Archives staff’s failure to contact law enforcement immediately and their contacts with Mr. Berger about the missing documents compromised the law enforcement effort.
“The compromised law enforcement effort contributes to reduced confidence that the 9/11 Commission received all the documents it requested. The execution of a search warrant before Mr. Berger knew there was an investigation would have either located additional documents or enhanced confidence that he stole no others than those he admitted to taking.
“The public statements of the former chief of the public integrity section, Noel Hillman, were incomplete and misleading. Because Mr. Berger had access to original documents that he could have taken without detection, we do not know if anything ‘was lost to the public or the process.’
“The Justice Department’s assertion that Mr. Berger’s statements are credible after being caught is misplaced. One wouldn’t rely on the fox to be truthful after being nabbed in the hen house. But the Justice Department apparently did.”
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Hey MSM, we have a Watergate style crime involved in covering up the ineptitude of President Klintoon and the death of 3,000 Americans.....crickets chirping.....
“My staff’s investigation reveals that President Clinton’s former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger compromised national security much more than originally disclosed,” Davis said. “It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience.
This is as damning an article as I've read about Berger.
Still puzzled by his extremely light sentence. And disappointed.
Noel Hillman refused to go after Hillary for her campaign finance fraud. They indicted the underling, David Rosen.
Ping A Ling!
My questions of how many copies were made and who got the copies at what price after Sandy destroyed the originals. There is more to this story.
Whitey: "As Democrats, we are ALL above the law, suckers"
Happy news!
Had Berger gone to jail he would not have been able to raise funds for Clinton croney Joe Sestak to move to Pennsylvania and beat Curt Weldon. Funny how these Clintonites keep helping Slick Willy get even.
Really and truly, with no exagerration or embellishment, the most under-reported story ever. Try to begin to imagine if that had been Condi, Berger's opposite number in the Bush admin. The silence is simply breathtaking, and on a crime related to the what is indisputably the single biggest news story since Dec 7, 41.
I'm puzzled by also
Just you wait until the Republicans are in charge!!!
They'll take care of these kinds of things!!!!
chirp chirp chirp
[Oh yeh, they were. And they let Sandy off with a slap on the wrist.]
The penalty for crossing the Clintons must be far greater than any possible criminal penalty....reference Susan McDougal and Webb Hubbell. I don't think we will ever know any more about it.
I do fault President Bush for going so light on these perpetrators.
so now maybe the committee on govt ops (or some such) will investigate DOJ?
I don't think so
That's okay. Her viewership wouldn't know what she was talking about anyway.
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