Sloppiness? He did not at least have to sign in and out for these documents?
He just accidentally stuck classified docs in his pockets and inadvertently stuffed a few others in his leather portfolio. If he had to sign for them how could he say it was an accident.
What a farce this 9/11 Commission is.
Once, as a young and very poor child, I accidentally stuffed a Baltimore Orioles yearbook in my book bag.
At least that's what I told my Dad, who, upon the very first hearing, did not believe me.
Of course I had no David Gergan lightweight to defend me though had it gone down that way my brother could have helped me out. "I just think it's very suspicious, Dad, that this Oriole yearbook shows up in Pat's bookbag right after the year end. That's when they publish these things, right Dad?"
Now my brother would never have done such a thing for me so I had to stick with the yearbook getting "inadvertently" left in my book bag.
Well, hey, it was a Catholic School book bag and the zipper did go from the bottom right side up and around to the bottom left side. I explained this to my father, even showed him the bookbag to better illustrate my theory.
"See, Dad, I was standing below the magazine rack like this," I explained, sitting the bag down as if under an imaginery magazine display. I completely unzipped the thing and opened it wide. "I had just opened the bag to get out a folder and I accidently hit the rack. I guess the yearbook fell in when I hit the rack and I didn't notice it."
Hand to God this is an actual true story. My father is a died-in-the-wool Democrat and taught me how to rig a voting machine when I was 8.
Alas, my Dad, having more common sense than the main stream media, Katie Courac and David Gergan all combined, didn't believe a word of it. Punishment was forthcoming.
You can pull this crap on Republicans because beyond Newt Gingrich, not one of their properly suited and freshly-haircutted selves will ever go on Today and right in the middle of a David Gergan type stream of nonsense, shout out loud, clear and firm "JESUS CHRIST, THE MAN WAS CAUGHT WITH CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IN HIS PANTS!"
Let Joe Blow public, then brushing his teeth to the background of the TV, hear this coming from a Trent Lott. It'll get their attention.