Posted on 01/13/2007 7:20:33 AM PST by kellynla
The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn. On Tuesday, the House Government Reform Committee released its report on Mr. Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives.
The committee's 60-page report makes it clear that Mr. Berger knew exactly what he was doing and knew that what he was doing was wrong. According to interviews with National Archives staff, Mr. Berger repeatedly arranged to be left alone with highly classified documents by feigning the need to make personal phone calls, and he used those moments alone with the files to stuff them in his pockets and briefcase.
One incident is particularly suggestive. By his fourth and final visit to review documents and prepare for testimony before the 9/11 Commission, the Archives staff had grown suspicious of how Mr. Berger was handling the documents, so they numbered each one he was given in pencil on the back of the document. When one of them--No. 217--was apparently removed from the files by Mr. Berger, the staff reprinted a copy and replaced it for his review. According to the report, Mr. Berger then proceeded to slip the second copy "under his portfolio also." In other words, he stole the same document twice.
This gives the lie to Mr. Berger's story that he was taking the documents for his own convenience, to assist with his preparation for testimony to the commission. If that were the whole story, one copy of document 217 would surely have been sufficient. That document was an email pertaining to a draft of the Millennium After-Action Report on the attempted bombing of Los Angeles International Airport. The episode suggests that Mr. Berger had some other motive
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It seems that he was taking a lot of risks to cover just the legacy. I wonder what his real motivation was?
Exactly why Berger plead guilty. Everyone, including his lawyers, knew he was as guilty as sin, and if the case was tried, all these facts would come out.
"The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn."
The one thing that we do know is that the elites, from either political party, take care of one another. It's not got a thing to do with pilfered FBI files, Alberto Gonzales simply was not interested in jailing a fellow member of the class lest a required favor from the other side down the road be held back in retribution.
Their rules for them and their rules for the rest of us. It's the way of the world.
"Someday, the full story of the Clinton criminality will be written."
I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
Those copies of F.B.I. files will prevent "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" from ever being revealed.
But we MUST make sure that another Clinton NEVER darkens the doorway of the Oval Office again!
I volunteer to administer it, too.
From recent evidence, I would say the Donks don't have a corner on that inclination.
I can only pray that Gonzalez never reaches the Supreme Court. He is a wet noodle and incapable of effective leadership in his position. Did a Clinton appointee run this case through the system? I am sure he has a fair share of supporters still in place. The FBI raid on Weldons daughters home prior to the last election when Joe Sestak and Sandy Berger were working toward ousting him was suspect.
The fact that this slimey little "sloppy" creature in not behind bars says a lot about our government, and it is not good.
Berger is an old McGovern Dem. Having him as a National Security Advisor was a joke. He's a common thief, and Clinton's a common liar, so they go well together.
torture?
no need to "torture"
I have two words for you..."water boarding"
next case!
I don't know what gives with the Justice Department. Judging from results, it looks like getting along with your political adversaries is more important than enforcing the law.
By the evidence, it was obvious that the National Security Council Clintonistas were scared to death of Weldon. They did everything they could to defeat him. Curious that all these NSC hands would single out Weldon for defeat.
"There is a "Mary Marcarthy" democrat-mole in Justice."
Mary McCarthy is an outstanding example of someone who should be prosecuted by the Justice Department, and hasn't been.
The Burger antics have created lots of anger (all of it justified). Bill Bennett came up with a song contest to try and relieve some of that anger with humor and it is quite theraputic. The incomparable Mark Steyn weighed in with some particularly clever lyrics which are here if you feel like trying to at least get a couple of laughs out of this.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016477.php
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