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A Sandy Burglar Comeback?
The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | September 10, 2007 | Jonathan Adler

Posted on 09/11/2007 11:25:42 AM PDT by beida

A Sandy Burglar Comeback? In a report on the efforts of Democratic presidential candidates to attract the "best and brightest" policy advisors for their campaigns, Newsweek columnist Michael Hirsh reports that former national security advisor and document pilferer Sandy Berger is one of the three foreign policy experts most relied upon by Senator Hillary Clinton in her White House bid. No word on whether he would have a White House position — or security clearance — in a potential Clinton Administration.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20628439/site/newsweek/page/0/

(Excerpt) Read more at volokh.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; sandyberger; sandyburglar
Battle for the Best and Brightest

By Michael Hirsh Newsweek

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20628439/site/newsweek/page/0/

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has relied largely on her husband and a triumvirate of senior officials from his presidency—former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former national-security adviser Sandy Berger (who tries to keep a low profile after pleading guilty in 2005 to misdemeanor charges of taking classified material without authorization).

1 posted on 09/11/2007 11:25:44 AM PDT by beida
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To: beida

Thanks, George, for giving Sandy Burglar such a sweetheart plea deal. /UltraMegaGigaSarc


2 posted on 09/11/2007 11:43:53 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: beida

Well I guess we know what the payoff was for Burglar sneeking out those docs from the archieves. Wonder what the Clintons needs so badly to go missing.


3 posted on 09/11/2007 11:54:56 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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To: NonValueAdded

Yep, thanks to the Bush Administraion and Alberto Gozales, Burglar will be welcomed back with open arms.

This Justice Department would not even follow up with an agreed upon Polygraph Test of Burglar. What a farce.


4 posted on 09/11/2007 12:01:14 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: NonValueAdded

Sniping in front of the cameras notwitstanding, the Clintons and Bushs are not the big enemies many seem to believe they are. The question the Bush administration needs to ask itself, tho, is will a possible 3rd Clinton administration be as nice to them as they were to the Clintons?


5 posted on 09/11/2007 12:45:20 PM PDT by COgamer
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To: beida
before his escapades the burglar was a lock to be the beast’s secretary of state, now knowing about his treasonous activities, he’s probably been elevated to vice presidential material. after all we’re dealing with left-wing socialist ideologue logic.
6 posted on 09/11/2007 12:49:56 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: beida
"Best and the Brightest"?

"Worst and the Unindicted" is more like it for this band of sociopath career criminals "advising" Hilldebeast.


7 posted on 09/11/2007 12:57:30 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: beida
No word on whether he would have a ...security clearance... in a potential Clinton Administration.

Brings something to mind. What exactly does a security clearance mean in a Clinton administration? After what we've seen with CIA blowing their own ops to the press, with Democrat leaders giving aid and comfort to the jihadists, with Bin Ladin's speeches indistinguishable from Reid's and Pelosi's, with Chinese money sloshing all about, is there anyone left in Washington who could pass a security clearance that meant anything?

8 posted on 09/11/2007 1:03:33 PM PDT by marron
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To: beida; kristinn; doug from upland
Someone has got to get through the Clintons' filter and demand that Hillary -- who has blathered on and on about a "Republican culture of corruption" -- swear off any participation of Berger or any of his employees, associates, or contractors in her administration.

Can she answer that Berger will have no role, officially or not, in her White House? I don't think she'll be able to do it without the Gleasonesque "hamina hamina haminas."

9 posted on 09/11/2007 1:03:52 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee ("Norman Hsu:" Chinese for "Abramoff")
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To: MNJohnnie

One thing is for sure -

the penalty that Burglar faced was obviously far less damaging than having the information stay in the archives.


10 posted on 09/11/2007 1:05:50 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: beida

Not if the conservative blogosphere has anything to say about it.


11 posted on 09/11/2007 1:07:03 PM PDT by Petronski (Cleveland Indians: Pennant -12)
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To: beida; kristinn; doug from upland
Let me refocus my previous post:

Someone has got to get through the Clintons' filter and demand that Hillary -- who has blathered on and on about a "Republican culture of corruption" cronyism in the Bush White House -- swear off any participation of Berger or any of his employees, associates, or contractors in her administration.

12 posted on 09/11/2007 1:13:49 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee ("Norman Hsu:" Chinese for "Abramoff")
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To: beida

Is Sandy Burglar the LYNCH-PIN between the Clintons and the COMMUNIST CHINESE???


13 posted on 09/11/2007 1:16:15 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: Suzy Quzy

In 1992, he was a big admirer of Clinton and a lobbyist for Chinese trade. I don’t trust Sandy Berger at all.


14 posted on 09/11/2007 4:53:50 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: marron

“No word on whether he would have a ...security clearance... in a potential Clinton Administration.”

There were several people in the last Clinton Administration who weren’t exactly diligent about getting their security clearances.


15 posted on 09/11/2007 4:55:50 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: FormerACLUmember; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; null and void; Larry Lucido; Eric Blair 2084
Hey, Sandy knows to toe the mark...

or else...

16 posted on 09/11/2007 4:56:33 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: popdonnelly

I think Sandy Burglar IS the conduit between Chinese Communist money and the Clintons.


17 posted on 09/11/2007 5:12:41 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy
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To: beida

Where is the Republican to call this SOB the traitor that he is?


18 posted on 09/11/2007 7:54:32 PM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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