Posted on 07/20/2004 9:06:44 AM PDT by Matchett-PI
I'm reluctant at this time to comment on this. It could be that some alert employees who noted the infraction the first time notified their superiors or the FBI and a sting operation was set up.
Not only to catch Burgler removing the docs, but to ascertain just WHAT he was removing through the use of codes and markings.
Some archive employees and their superiors may actually turn out to be heroes of a sort.
Leni
Thanks for links; file; save and bump!
The memos laid out the Richard Clarke plans for security, that the Clinton administration never enacted and criticized the Gorelick wall as the biggest roadblock to security. Kerry used the whole Clarke plan as his own security plan, first in a speech on Dec. 17, then again on Feb. 27. It must have been almost word for word because Kerry immediately pulled the plan from his web site when the Berger burglary became public.
I don't believe that Kerry was involved in the actual theft or a cover-up, just in using the purloined documents, and knowing that they were stolen. I am hoping for multiple inditements, though, for Berger, Clarke and hopefully Gorelick, with charges of obstructing a government investigation, just like Martha Stewart. Maybe the Stewart case was a test run. We now have a new charge to go after white collar criminals and politicians, kind of like going after Al Capone for tax evasion.
Joe Wilson's blog against Bush is funded by Kerry for President, as is noted at the bottom of the web page.
OMG; gotta love it! Restore Honesty.com!
as my tagline offers; 'the starting point for Liberals is the lie. . .'
Amazing the Kerry Campaign can do this. . .more amazing that they have; and that 'Honesty.com' (pullleeeeeze!)has not yet been pulled.
From a news report regarding the Kerry Campaign Website's removal of Kerry's speech outlining security recommendations for airports & seaports:
Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) believes otherwise, saying, "There is a curious connection between the removal of these documents and the Kerry press conference on port security. It's disappointing what people might do as they try to take the president down."
Berger had been the dominant national security advisor to Sen. Kerry and was suggested by some as a potential Secretary of State in a Kerry administration, something that now appears unlikely no matter what the outcome of November's election.
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