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"OK let's see. The Rats have been caught again. The spin has started that it's a VRWC and that the Bush Administration timed this for the Rat Convention. Berger was only a low level adviser to the Toon. Yadda, Yadda, all the same. I am waiting for Mr. Joe Q Public to wake up and see what these traitors are doing to this country. To Mr. Berger: You knew better this was not sloppy work. Your party lost me with Carter and for good reason!"

I have read no where that attributes this story to the Bush administration. Might be an attempt to force action and response from the Bush administration to the status of the investigation.

Typically the Clinton response was "no comment", or blame a Republican, but Berger admits he took documents. So apparently he was alerted in advance that the story was going to be leaked.

I believe Gergan and Lanny Davis both mentioned the Bush administration as the reason for the timing. At least I think other posters mentioned them on this and other threads. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. It's too much in their character. My other big question is why was Bruce Lindsay called? What connection to the archives does he have?

David Gergen on the Today show this morning......(from Hugh Hewitt's column)....

Gergen than went way beyond a mere defense of Berger's honesty and patriotism. He decided to perpetrate a smear of Republicans and by extension the Bush administration. Claimed Gergen: "It's rather suspicious to Berger's associates that the story would leak just before the 9/11 Commission report is due out. He's been investigated for months. A man of utter integrity who served this country well. This is a distraction from the findings of 9/11 Commission."

Couric: "So this is political?"

Gergen: "It has those overtones."

Couric: "Berger has been advising the Kerry campaign on foreign policy - how will this story affect that?"

Gergen: "It depends how it bounces in press. The Washington Post played it inside the paper [surprise!]. If it becomes a front page story there will be pressure on him to distance himself or take aleave from campaign." But not to worry, this "doesn't reflect on Sen. Kerry."