Posted on 01/28/2007 11:24:02 PM PST by CutePuppy
Paper Chase Did investigators turn a blind eye to the seriousness of the Sandy Berger scandal?
Washington scandals are curious things. Sometimes special prosecutors are appointed and the media provide saturation coverage of their doings. An example would be the Valerie Plame episode, which led to this month's perjury trial of Scooter Libby, the former White House aide accused of lying about who first told him Joe Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.
Then there are the barely noticed scandals, which prosecutors pursue quietly and professionally. Take the case of Donald Keyser, a former State Department official who last week was sentenced to just over a year in jail for keeping classified documents at his home and for lying about his personal relationship with a Taiwanese diplomat.
Then there is Sandy Berger, the former Clinton national security adviser who pleaded guilty last year to knowingly taking and destroying classified documents from the National Archives while preparing for his testimony before the 9/11 Commission. When archives officials caught Mr. Berger, they bizarrely first asked a friend of his, former Clinton White House counsel Bruce Lindsey, for an explanation, rather than contact the Justice Department. After initially lying to investigators, Mr. Berger finally admitted that he took the documents, but only for "personal convenience."
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The issue is still relevant. Officials of the 9/11 Commission are now on record expressing "grave concern" about the materials to which Mr. Berger had access. A report from the National Archives Inspector General last month found he took extraordinary measures to spirit them out of the archives, including hiding them in his pockets and socks. He also went outside without an escort and put some documents under a construction trailer, from where he could later retrieve them.
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It's there and it's festering.
This one won't go away, no matter how much Bush and Clinton want it to.
I wish you were correct but I fear we are the only ones talking about this.
If I had done this as an Army Officer I would have faced a long prison sentence in Leavenworth. Ironically, if I had stuck a cigar in one of my 18 year old soldiers I would have been sent to Leavenworth as well.
I really hope history records the truth about the Clintons because I gave up on the MSM doing it a long time ago.
Never fear... History is recording it, among other places, here on FR.
BOOKMARK! for later.
Well unless some copies of those original documents show up history will be greatly handicapped from ever knowing the truth.
Clinton and his ilk, Burger, have a boldness to their sin that separates them from the rest of the pack. Right now I can't see how the truth will ever escape.
The lie detector? ha ha ha, it ain't gonna happen.
This administration will never convince me that it is serious about fighting a "war on terror" as long as it insists on allowing someone like this @sshole to walk away with a slap on the wrist after he committed a Federal crime for the sole purpose of covering up his own complicity (and the complicity of his former superiors) in the matter.
"where's the outrage?"
I can only think that there is big money being paid to a lot of people because as much as msm people hate democrats being made to look foolish, many of them could not resist a huge story like this unless they had the money to make them stifle.
BTTT!
If only we actually had a "Justice" Dept. It appears that our internal enemies have captured the Department's of Justice, Intelligence, State, Education, Commerce as well as part of DOD....let us pledge allegience to the USSA, United Soviet States of America!
You're exactly right; this is a scandal both Bush and the Clintons what to have go away. Even worse, it's part of an absolutely consistent pattern of Bush repeatedly covering for the Clintons and their accomplices and deliberately avoiding any meaningful prosecution of really terrible crimes, a pattern that goes back to the first days of the Bush presidency when they did their best to cover the Clintonoids' vandalizing the White House and EOB.
All of this raises the question of why, especially since exposing the Clinons and their accomplices would have just about assured continuous Republican control of the presidency and the Congress. The only answer I have seen for this deliberate dereliction of duty by Bush is that there is a longterm scandalous relationship between the Bushes and Clintons, probably dating back to the CIA's activities at the Mena, Arkansas airport during the term of Bush I. About then the Wall Street Journal ran one or two articles that suggested the CIA was able to use the Mena airport in return for allowing the Clintons and their friends to smuggle in cocaine. A result of this could logically be the current unnatural relationship bewseen the two families where Bush does his level best to suppress any meaningful prosecution of Clintonoid wrongdoing. In return, I suspect they're covering for him on any possible impeachment effort by the moonbats.
bttt
Many wonder what Sandy may have delivered to the archives.
Maybe some cover documents to make Bubba look better ?
BTTT
"where is the outrage."
in old soviet union, bureaucrats alvays korrect. kould nevehr do anything wrung. vhen iu heer de sound of boots in streets, iu vill know ees too late fur outrage. so, peek ur re-education camp and enjoy, comrade!
Had he known, Mr. Zelikow says, he would had "grave concern."
Not only were the 9/11 Commission not told that Mr. Berger had access to original documents; they were affirmatively led to believe that the commission got all the documents that Mr. Berger took.
This individual outed herself!!
And I will not even attempt to discuss the alleged "9/11 Commission"!! What a farce!! This government of "ours" no longer belongs to "We the People"!!
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