The obvious damage control is to sacrifice Mr. Berger while tying him to the now defunct Clinton Administration...in the hopes that distracts the public from his current employer: Senator Kerry.
9 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Posted on 07/19/2004 11:17:07 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Here's a snip of everything you need to know about Sandy Berger...from Alamo Girls Downside legacy:
http://www.alamo-girl.com/0211.htm
On Mr. Berger's watch, Chinese military elements have occupied strategic islands hundreds of miles off the China coast. These military outposts sit astride shipping lanes in which all of Japan's energy needs are transported…. Finally, in a preview of the infamous definition of what is is, Mr. Berger told the Congress in 1997 there is no credible evidence COSCO (the China Ocean Shipping Co.) is engaged in a host of illegal activities, including arms smuggling. This misleading and dishonest statement completely ignores COSCO's pivotal role as the delivery boys for China's arms merchants. COSCO is on the record having delivered missiles to trouble spots and 2,000 fully automatic machine guns destined for drug gangs in the United States….."
Freeper Sakida reports 1/31/97 Jewish Telegraphic Agency "…The Washington Post reported that Berger was advised by White House lawyers in 1994 to sell a longtime family stock in the Amoco oil company. After initially questioning the advice, Berger agreed to sell the stock, but forgot to do so until reminded by White House lawyers to do so more than one year later, the Post said. Still, then-White House counsel Abner Mikva said he had no choice but to refer the case to the Justice Department's public integrity division. But White House counsel Jack Quinn said that Clinton was aware of the Justice Department probe of Berger, and believed Berger had committed a harmless oversight that should not interfere with his promotion, the Post said…."
The Hill 3/17/99 Dick Morris "…Sandy Berger is about as qualified to be White House national security advisor as I am. He’s a political operative who had virtually no foreign policy experience before he became Tony Lake’s deputy. He was put into the National Security Council (NSC) under Lake so that Tony, who didn’t have a clue about politics, wouldn’t get cut apart in the congressional swamp. His job was to know politics. Tony’s was to know foreign policy…. When Lake and Christopher left, Berger got the top NSC job, the first professional politician ever to be named national security advisor. It was a major mistake….Clinton’s choice of Berger was, however, just right for his concept of foreign policy, that it is subordinate to domestic political and economic considerations. Where the president can intervene abroad and do well at home with domestic constituencies — as in Israel, Ireland and Haiti — foreign policy is important. But where global strategy is concerned, the prime motive is economic — to create jobs in America — and not diplomatic, military or strategic. He runs foreign policy like a governor promoting his state…"
Maybe someone should send it to JapanToday like the Antiwar crowd did with that Capitol Hill Blue story sourcing the mythical CIA agent T J Wilkinson. That sure fired up the foreign presses, and that in turn got it great coverage in our media.
Clinton had many opportunities early on to do something about Islamic terror. He chose not to do so. He cared not a damn for our security. That was epitomized by naming a former bar bouncer as head of White House security. His key was the economy. As long as that kept rolling, he didn't have to do much else except drop his pants in the White House.
"So if ANYONE should know the procedures .. I would think HE SHOULD KNOW"
That's one of the main things that makes this so damning...the former NSA of all people should (does!) know that you don't go around stuffing "Highly Classified" security documents down your pants and into your briefcase and then walk out of the National Archives with them.
Ah, dang that is sweet!!! Now, you're just being a tease!
Hugh Hewitt has a great question on his site tonight, what would be going on in DC and in the morning papers if this story was about Condi Rice?!!
All hell would have broken loose. The onslaught at the media organs of the RATS would have been overwhelming. We have to face that such is the way it is. It is up to us to help push this story and shame them into doing it.
By the way, a Democrat fundraiser was involved in that gun scheme.
Here's a West Coaster up late (not as late as you!!) -- and I'm supposed to be finishing work on a job. I'm too fascinated by this story :) :).
Kinda like CIA Director John Deutch taking his CIA computer home and surfing the internet. (a true story)
Oh, I agree. :)
Not unless it reaches the mainstream media. We are (mostly) talking to ourselves here
Democrat fundraisers and dead people: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/902597/posts
The obvious damage control is to sacrifice Mr. Berger while tying him to the now defunct Clinton Administration...in the hopes that distracts the public from his current employer: Senator Kerry.
9 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
That's something I don't get -- Clinton was having Berger select which documents from the Administration to give the 9/11 Commission.
Why wasn't some "neutral" party reviewing the docs? Was this made public, that Clinton could have his own people select the documents to be seen by the Commission?
Me too! I was busy when this broke and haven't been able to get to the 'puter until a little bit ago. Howlin, I can't believe you're still upright, girl!
I wasn't a FReeper at the time the Monica story broke, but I remember it vividly, I was very pregnant and had insomnia anyway, and sat up into the wee hours every night waiting for new developments from the next day's papers to make the web :).
We can only hope this story will turn out to be at least as infamous... I'm very concerned the papers are going to try to bury this in the back pages and that the TV nets will try to brush it off as minor news, when it's obvious that this is on a par with Watergate. This was someone who was clearly conscious of his own guilt who went out the Archive doors with those papers and "lost" them. If a National Security Advisor doesn't understand "highly classified," who does?!?!
Well, the commission sure didn't allow the Bush Administration to be that selective, did they? There's a lot to this story I don't understand YET. I won't tolerate this one being buried. But I think I'm falling asleep.....night all!!
Good night! Should be an interesting day tomorrow!
I'd better go read the last 20 pages of this boring depo. See you tomorrow, all!
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