[kellynla]

Fat Sandy is covered by the Clinton "J.Edgar Hoover" insurance policy. Berger won't serve one day behind bars. "Honey, I knew those F.B.I. files would come in handy."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Someday, the full story of the Clinton criminality will be written. It breaks my heart that the Bush Administration hasn't lifted a finger to examine the evidence while its still fresh.

[Thebaddog]

It seems that he was taking a lot of risks to cover just the legacy. I wonder what his real motivation was?

[popdonnelly]

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.

[vetsvette]

"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.

[cooldog]

Given the national security, historical and political (again, national security) implications of this case, I believe that the use of torture to obtain the truth is fully justified.

I volunteer to administer it, too.

[popdonnelly]

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.

[FreedomNeocon]

There is a "Mary Marcarthy" democrat-mole in Justice.

Thats the only possible explanation for the slap on the wrist, tiny fine and security clearance revoked (until 2008) and virtually NON-EXISTANT interest by Justice or any republicans (curt weldon was being 'investigated' at the time) is just too much.

Also Scooter Libby and Plame and all was going on, at the direction of Justice.

Just does not make sense.

[Bahbah]

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

[bannie]

On Tuesday, the House Government Reform Committee released its report on Mr. Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives.

And how long have we known?

[popdonnelly]

Let's review. So far we have:

- Two Clinton lawyers appointed to the 9/11 Commission;
- Sandy Berger stealing documents from the 9/11 reading room, when he absolutely has to know he's in stark violation of the law;
- The Clinton National Security Council working all out to defeat Curt Weldon.

I wonder what the "Clinton legacy" is? If we allow this crap to continue, we'll never know the truth.

[hosepipe]

Espionage is evidently not a crime anymore..
And Treason raises eyebrows... but nothing more..

The real crime is/are performed by those that should prosecute these felony's..
Failure to do so encourages more of the same..

[Charles Henrickson]

THE SANDY MAN
Tune: "The Candy Man"

Who can take a paper
Stuff it in a shoe
Cover up the caper
With a perjury or two?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good.

Who can take a secret
Tape it to his thigh
Walk it out and sneak it
Like an undercover spy?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good.

The Sandy Man makes
Every move that takes
Classifying as suspicious
And the line of crap he dishes
You can even call fictitious.

Who can take a memo
Slip it up a sleeve
Hold it near his elbow
And say nothing when he leaves?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good.

The Sandy Man makes
Every move that takes
Classifying as suspicious
And the line of crap he dishes
You can even call fictitious.

Who can take a memo
Slip it up a sleeve
Hold it near his elbow
And say nothing when he leaves?
The Sandy Man . . .
The Sandy Man can . . .
The Sandy Man can
'Cause he takes it from the file
To make his boss look good. . . .

.
(SITTIN' WHERE) THE DOCUMENTS LAY
Tune: "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"

Sittin' in an archive room
I see written who did what about whom
Watchin' for Clinton's role
Got to keep my boss's legacy whole

I'm sittin' where the documents lay
Watchin' the guard walk away
I'll just fit 'em in my socks so they'll stay
Placed inside

I'm liftin' just a portion
Just the ones that would give Clinton grief
If I do a few more contortions
It looks like some will even fit in my briefs

I'm sittin' where the documents lay
Watchin' the guard walk away
I'll just fit 'em in my socks so they'll stay
Placed inside

Looks like nothing seems too strange
Everything still appears the same
But I still got these ten papers here left to do
So I hope my suit stands the strain

Sittin' here looking around
And these documents must weigh fifty pounds
These two thousand files I found
Tend to make my socks fall down

I'm sittin' where the documents lay
Watchin' the guard walk away
I'll just fit 'em in my socks so they'll stay
Placed inside

"IN THE ARCHIVES" (Sandy works for me)
Tune: "In the Garden" (And he walks with me)
As sung by Bill Clinton

He comes to the Archives alone
Pulls a heist right under their noses
'Cause the stuff they have
Would make me look bad
The things that it discloses

Sandy works for me
He does dirt for me
And he knows what files need to go
And the stuff he takes
Showing my mistakes
None other will ever know

He speaks and the sound of his voice
Is so sweet the guards stop their guarding
And the documents
In his socks and pants
He'll soon be out discarding

Sandy works for me
He does dirt for me
And he knows what files need to go
And the stuff he takes
Showing my mistakes
None other will ever know

I'd go to the Archives with him
But that might cause people to murmur
That's the reason why
I can now deny
I ever knew this Berger

Sandy works for me
He does dirt for me
And he knows what files need to go
And the stuff he takes
Showing my mistakes
None other will ever know

[Liz]

Berger stole classified security documents because he knows revelations about his activities as Clinton's National Security Adviser would expose him as a complete incompetent..........or worse. Berger is apparently covering-up and shredding crucial info that reflects upon US national security failures, and possibly unauthorized transfers of classified info to foreign countries.

It's chilling for patriots to read that Berger was a "workaholic" as Clinton's National Security Adviser----Berger was always seen surrounded with top-secret documents---and he often worked late, when no one was around to see what he was doing. A study of his Clinton-era phone records and computer emails to see who Berger was talking to should prove interesting. God knows how much info Berger stole then, where he hid it, and where it ended up.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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.

His explanation, that he wanted to read the document twice, was accepted without comment.

[Liz]

Why are we letting this duplicitous dumbo get away with endangering US citizens? Lamebrain Berger running our national security had precious few "successes" and flops galore:

(1) Berger was on-duty when top-secret US technology was sold to China.

(2) Berger was on-duty when the US bombed the aspirin factory; lamebrain Berger advised Clinton it was manufacturing deadly chemicals.

(3) Berger was on-duty during Somolia, and Kosovo, and Hatti, and all the other wonderful military success stories of the Clinton administration.

(4) And then there's the infamous Clinton pardons Berger aided and abetted, and did nothing to stop. Mark Rich was and is the biggest tax cheat in US history, who absconded, then renounced his US citizenship to evade prosecution.

(5) Clinton also pardoned 16 terrorists---members of the FALN---- so Hillary could get Latino votes for her Senate run in NY's large Puerto Rican population. The Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN) was involved in more than 100 bombings in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s." Berger did nothing to stop it.

(6) And let's not forget the bombing of the Chinese embassy.

(7) Remember when then-Pres Clinton went to Norfolk making a "solemn promise" to the families, friends and shipmates of the USS Cole to avenge their deaths. But when the opportunity presented itself, he squandered it. Clinton flunky, Berger, conveniently blamed the misstep on the Pentagon.

As if anyone in the Pentagon would pass up the chance to avenge the sailors of the USS Cole.

[Enchante]

This is how 'Rats and RINOs have lied about this case: they grossly understate the significance of what the Burglar is known to have done, pretend it was all inadvertent (that story sure fell apart completely) or done for "convenience" of preparing testimony for the 9/11 Omission, and ignore the FACT that this Burglar scumbag had ample opportunity to steal and destroy all manner of ORIGINAL docs that were not inventoried..... for those liberal gasbags in DOJ to pretend that the known crimes of Sandy Burglar are insignificant ignores every aspect of the facts of the case. DOJ, State, and CIA have been proved over and over again to be infested with liberal vermin who do not have the law or the interests of this nation at heart.

"Another telling revelation concerns Mr. Berger's access to original, uncopied and uninventoried documents from the files of former NSC antiterror official Richard Clarke, among others. At the time Mr. Berger made his misdemeanor plea agreement, we were assured by then-federal prosecutor Noel Hillman that there was no evidence that Mr. Berger destroyed or intended to destroy any original documents. That was, strictly speaking, true. But during three of Mr. Berger's four visits to the Archives in 2002 and 2003, the former National Security Adviser did have access to original documents of which no adequate inventory existed or exists."

[Northern Yankee]

Isn't it amazing... The Dems can come up with all sorts of lies about President Bush, and threaten impeachment, but Sandy Berger can actually committ a federal offense, and he continues to walk around without any hint of jail time.

[wildbill]

"Thanks to Justice's and the Archives' leniency, or laxity, or both, Mr. Berger's plea deal expires in 2008--just in time, perhaps, for the next Clinton Administration"

this is what the Dept of Justice has acquiesced to: a plea of "please don't throw me in that briar patch."

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[TruthWillWin]

A lot of stories on this the last week at FR. Keep them coming. Too bad the MSM does not cover this.