More likely is the media will water this down, claiming "inadvertant error" and then continue to parade friends like Gergen in front of the cameras. Meanwhile, they'll question the "timing" and whether this probe is "political."
In the end, Berger will be indicted and will be charged but the media will sit on the story and let it die.
It always has. It always will. The media, having been allowed to be in the position of creating and destroying the news, now does so at will and underneath the nose of the very willing general public.
Possible but if he is on video tape, with "marked" docs, caught in a sting op, he's toast. Although Marion Barry got reelected AFTER his bust smoking/selling crack.