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The secret for which Sandy risked his all .... (remove documents from Mr. Clarke's files)
WND ^ | January 18, 2007

Posted on 01/18/2007 6:21:20 AM PST by IrishMike

If not the most skillful of embezzlers, Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a far more formidable character than the media would have us believe. When he made his now-storied sorties into the National Archives, he risked his career and his reputation in so doing, and he knew it. Rest assured, he would not have done so were the secrets to be preserved not worth the risk of pilfering them.

True to form, the major media refuse to even ask the most fundamental question: Just what secrets would justify so much personal exposure? Having read the report on Berger by the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, I am more confident than ever that I know the answer.

The House report makes clear, Berger did not exactly welcome this assignment. This confirms my suspicions. The archivists told the committee, in fact, that Berger "indicated some disgust with the burden and responsibility of conducting the document review." ...............................

Understandably, the 9/11 Commission was very concerned about who knew what when in regards to the use of planes as bombs. Bush National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was asked on her first real question: "Did you ever see or hear from the FBI, from the CIA, from any other intelligence agency, any memos or discussions or anything else between the time you got into office and 9-11 that talked about using planes as bombs?"

Rice said no. She was likely telling the truth. Clarke had acknowledged as much during his earlier testimony. He admitted that the "knowledge about al-Qaida having thought of using aircraft as weapons" was relatively old, "5 years, 6 years old." He asked that intelligence analysts "be forgiven for not thinking about it given the fact that they hadn't seen a lot in the five or six years intervening about it."

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: berger; bush; clarke; clinton; iraq; sandyberger; sandybergler; terrorism; war; waronterrorism; wot
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A conspiracy that will make Watergate seem as consequential as a Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.
1 posted on 01/18/2007 6:21:21 AM PST by IrishMike
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To: IrishMike

Obviously something bad was going on. Clinton made him out to be a bumbler. The media ignored it. Sure proof that Berger was protecting Bubba.


2 posted on 01/18/2007 6:23:14 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (MSM: created for the express purpose of promoting leftist ideology.)
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To: IrishMike

"A conspiracy that will make Watergate seem as consequential as a Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction."

LOL!
I just hope Sandy keeps his clothes on. ;)

Please add me to your ping list if you have one.


3 posted on 01/18/2007 6:25:06 AM PST by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: IrishMike; All

Neglected to credit Jack Cashill as author.


4 posted on 01/18/2007 6:26:54 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

No, no, no, twas not BJ/Bubba that Sandy was protecting, twas the beast.


5 posted on 01/18/2007 6:27:34 AM PST by edzuk
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1

Don't have or know how to do the ping listing,
sorry,
.... Mike


6 posted on 01/18/2007 6:29:35 AM PST by IrishMike (MORE SURGE, Moqtada Al Sadr needs killing.)
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To: edzuk

She has the most to lose right now. Bubba is teflon, nothing sticks to him.


7 posted on 01/18/2007 6:30:49 AM PST by alicewonders
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Do you think that the Republicans are sitting on what they know and waiting for the best time to disclose? Such as October 2008 when Hitlery thinks she's closing in on that White House?


8 posted on 01/18/2007 6:37:26 AM PST by chopperman
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To: edzuk
Do you suppose maybe Berger was seeking protect Berger. Maybe it's no more complicated than it would appear on the surface. He wanted to get rid of evidence of something he did while the Clintons were in office.

I am not suggesting he would not, or did not, do it on behalf of the Clintons, but I also think it could be that he was acting in his own self-interest. It certainly wouldn't be the first time someone has reverted to the basic human nature to look out for one's self!
9 posted on 01/18/2007 6:43:51 AM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: chopperman

Even if they did, the GOP doesn't have the stones.


10 posted on 01/18/2007 6:49:01 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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Sadly, links are not working for me so I can't read the whole article. I'll try later. The massive WND servers may be overwhelmed by this linkage.


11 posted on 01/18/2007 6:49:30 AM PST by Jack Black
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A conspiracy that will make Watergate seem as consequential as a Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.

I'm really looking forward to the upcoming Washington Post and New York Times in depth investigations.

12 posted on 01/18/2007 6:50:28 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Well, it's 2007. Time to get ready for 2008.)
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To: jwparkerjr

Watch an apellate judge nomination named Hillman from NJ. He was the prosecutor who pled out both Berger and Clinton. We should make a Harriet Myers type stink about him.


13 posted on 01/18/2007 6:51:10 AM PST by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: chopperman

LoL. Not this party. I do admire an optimist though.


14 posted on 01/18/2007 6:52:54 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

They'll get right on it as soon as they are done with the massive series on Libya conducting Saddam's nuclear weapons research.


15 posted on 01/18/2007 6:54:19 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: IrishMike
The Burglar shenanigans will soon disappear down the same hole as Able Danger.
16 posted on 01/18/2007 6:54:21 AM PST by Roccus (Able Danger??? What's an Able Danger????)
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To: chopperman
Do you think that the Republicans are sitting on what they know and waiting for the best time to disclose?

Good questions.

I hope you are right. It would be a disgrace if this one was left to wither on the vine.

17 posted on 01/18/2007 6:58:50 AM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: chopperman
Do you think that the Republicans are sitting on what they know and waiting for the best time to disclose? Such as October 2008 when Hitlery thinks she's closing in on that White House?

That or the Barrett Report would do it. Tony S. knows this and he has the president's ear.
18 posted on 01/18/2007 7:00:54 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: jwparkerjr
I doubt Berger to take a pee without checking with the Clintons.

This has Bubba and the Beasts' fingerprints all over it. (perhaps literally)

19 posted on 01/18/2007 7:01:59 AM PST by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: ClaireSolt
I don't think we have even begun to plumb the depths of what this case is all about. I have no doubt the deal worked out was nothing more than a hopeful attempt to keep the full details from being disclosed.

And I have no doubt the President was a part of the mix. I don't know why he has been so reluctant to pursue some of the actions of the Clinton years, but there simply has to be more this whole thing than we know at this point.

I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the nine hundred or so FBI files that made their way to the Clinton White House.

What I wouldn't give to get a president that goes after wrong-doing and the wrong-doers with the full force of the federal government. Sigh.
20 posted on 01/18/2007 7:05:10 AM PST by jwparkerjr
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