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"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?"

The first article from AP did not indicate where they got their information, and if it had been from the Bush Administration they would not have left that bit of information out.

Of course Gergen and Davis will blame the Republicans/Bush Administration, like that excuses stealing classified documents. The search of Berger's house went down way back in Jan. 2004, the same month the Commission requested a 90 day extension, so who leaked it sounds more like a Hillry leak than a Bush administration leak.

"My other big question is why was Bruce Lindsay called? What connection to the archives does he have?"

This seems an attempt to alert Clintons lawyer that Berger was caught and he better put back what he took. Problem is that apparently the FBI was contacted and this took the problem solving out of the hands of "Larry the lawyer" fixer of Clintons scandals.

I can think of no reason why if the Bush Administration had kept this under wraps all this time, even though Ashcroft hinted in his testimony of more "intel" aside from the Gorelick wall, for them to leak this right now.

Now that Berger has confirmed the story and admitted he stole documents seems it frees the administration up to affirm the investigation.

The first article from AP did not indicate where they got their information, and if it had been from the Bush Administration they would not have left that bit of information out.

Obviously this story is just breaking and the strange stuff we know is puzzling. Thus we must speculate.

Speculation is, ahem, right up my alley.

Okay, I don't think the Bush administration leaked this info. Ashcroft is too damn ethical and hey, if you're going to go leaking then why would they wait till now?

Now let me state that it could have been a REPUBLICAN what leaked the info because....tada...here's the strange timing as I see it:

I think someone on that 9/11 commission leaked the info. And they leaked it now because I think that yesterday someone in the Bush admin gave the commission a courtesy call about the possibility of missing documents.

You must ask why the justice people didn't tell the commission this earlier, if speculation is true. Which causes me to speculate again.

I think the justice dept was still wrangling with how to handle the Berger thing. Maybe they thought the situation would be solved by now and since it hasn't, the decision was made to tell the 9/11 commission BEFORE they published their final report.

On the surface my scenario assumes ethical people doing common sense things. The Justice Dept. had an individual under investigation and kept the details under wraps, which they ethically should do.

The 9/11 commission was chugging along per normal but the justice dept. felt compelled to notify them about the investigation lest they published what will later be an incomplete (if Berger's documents stolen are not recovered for the record) summary of the attacks.

But my instinct tells me the Bush admin, all of them, excrutiatingly do things the right way because @)it's the right thing to do and b)they attack them viciously with made up atrocities, imagine if they really were dishonest.

I'm not a pollyanna and do not attribute complete nobility to Dubya just because he's my guy. I figure if I was walking through the flames like Bush it's what I'd do. It is possible and for now and if nothing else, it's still a pleasant thought that our executive branch behaves properly. So far they've given me no reason to think not.

So the 9/11 commission gets this info and one of THEM leaked the info. It could have been a Republican, hell it was PROBABLY a Republican. And maybe the admin knew it would be leaked but they followed a normal and common sense process.

I've got some theories about the Lindsay thing and the copies but I must go and gather my wool for a bit and I've bored you enough.