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.”
The notes alone in those drafts must have been devastating. Maybe Bill and Hillary wrote "No" to any military plans to go after the jihadists.
LOL!
"...his own convenience, the Clintons and the Red Chinese, apparently.
BTTT
Red Chinese
or jihadists, or Saddam, or Kadaffi, or the Saud family, or some bunch we don't yet know about.
worse than Watergate. why they didn't crucify this thief, Berger, is incomprehensible.
I view this against the backdrop of the Dems drive to get us all the way out of Iraq. They know full well that if we leave before the job is done it will be the Killing Fields all over. So why do they want us out so badly? What secrets would come out in a truly free Iraq? Just what are the Dems afraid of? What are they hiding?
bttt!
So if I understand this putrid story.....
Sandy Burglar assures everyone that despite all his lies and felonious malfeasance in the theft and destruction of some of the most highly classified materials in our nation, we should "trust him" that nothing original or irreplaceable was lost.... oh, and he only went through this entire elaborate charade, at risk of criminal prosecution, because he wanted the "convenience" of reviewing materials elsewhere.
Uh huh..... and I have some great swampland in Arkansas to sell you......
DOJ would never take the "word" of any Mafiosi or drug traffickers (or so I would hope), but they are perfectly willing to believe the perp in this case, even when he established a clear record of lies and felonious behavior.
This lying scumbag charlatan should be hung, and the fools (and worse) at DOJ, the WH, the MSM, Congress, and the 9/11 Omission-Commission are all naive imbeciles at best, and treasonous lying frauds in the case of the Clintonistas, etc.
Is this the news release that will never be heard in the MSM?
Careful in broad daylight! Arkanside happens in other places besides Arkansas!
LOL.
You should read "The Brothers Bulger-How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century" by Howie Carr (if you haven't already). Such great lines in the book.
He belongs to the same club as Mr. Vehicular Homicide, Teddy Kennedy. Instead of going to jail for DUI, homicide, leaving the scene, perjury and obstruction of justice, he has served a life term in the U.S. Senate, representing the idiots in Massachusetts.
When I hear it from the likes of Soledad (a newscaster named after a prison) and the 'perky' one, I will breathe easier.
Although...hving it read into the record is a damn good start. Any shadow it can cast on Hitlery's campaign is AOK with me.
Is Saddam's rope still handy?
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