[Dems_R_Losers]

OK, fire away. This is headlined on the front of the NYT website now.

[LibFreeUSA]

-"President Clinton's national security advisor, Samuel R. Berger, inadvertently removed classified national security documents from the National Archives..."

I don't need to read beyond this.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Nothing about the fact that he was using the documents as underwear?

[bobo1]

"President Clinton's national security advisor, Samuel R. Berger, inadvertently (?) removed classified national security documents from the National Archives"

How do you "inadvertently" shove classified documents in your coat, your socks and your crotch (underwear)?

The NY Times writers are looneytoons.

Blessings, Bobo

[Tacis]

Willie's sewer dwellers are already at it! Lanny Davis just on CNN saying, "Reported the day of the Commission report. It sounds awfully suspicious to me." It is just like saying, "the bank had all that cash on the day that Willie walked in with a gun in his hand."

BERGER'S CRIME IS PROOF THAT WILLIE KNEW ABOUT AND COULD HAVE STOPPED 9-!! AND THAT THE COMMISSION REPORT IS A FAKE!!!

[Seeking the truth]

Rush said that this article appeared in the print version on page 19!

[Senator_Blutarski]

Two questions:

(1) I thought I read somewhere that there were at least 5 instances where Berger pilphered documents. Is that true? If so, how can Berger claim this was unintentional?

(2) Do copies of the documents still exist? If so, when so we get to read them?

(Actually, I guess there's more than 2 questions there...)

[NavySEAL F-16]

Let's see if it gets above the fold in tomorrow's print edition.

Then I'll believe that the NYT is serious.

[baseballmom]

Samuel R. Berger, inadvertently removed classified national security documents from the National Archives while vetting them in preparation for testimony before the Sept. 11 commission

How in the wide wide world of sports can someone INADVERNTENTLY remove classified documents by shoving them into your pants and jacket? I am absolutely insulted that they think we are that stupid that we will fall for that one. Arrrggghhhhhh !!!!!!!!!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

" ... When I was informed by the Archives there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had, except for a few documents that apparently I had accidentally discarded."

He obviously knew he had the documents before the Archives informed him that they were missing. Why didn't he return them the moment he supposedly found out that he had "accidentally" taken them? Why wait?

[hershey]

Lies, lies, and more lies. Inadvertent, sloppy. Uh, I don't think so. Rush said Berglar's counterpart in the Bush admin. is Condi Rice. National Security Advisor. They don't act 'sloppily', they don't do things 'inadvertently'. No judge in his right mind would believe it. If Condi been caught doing what Berglar did, she'd already be in an orange jumpsuit in the cell next to Martha Stewart.

[ICX]

Let's see. They only talk to Berger's lawyers, make handy use of the word 'inadvertently,' and make it sound like no big deal, as he was simply 'reacquainting' himself with the documents. Well gee, NYT...why bother going after the guy at all?

[JennysCool]

The Left has just lost the "holier than thou" aura they think they acquired after getting rid of Nixon. This is bigtime stuff, and it's going to be hard for them to spin to an increasingly skeptical public. Methinks after reading this Times bilge that the spin doctors are losing their surgical skills.

Watch for the CYA to get even more hysterical as, one by one, their media allies desert them rather than take any more hits to their already seriously-wounded credibility.

If this isn't the beginning of the end of the Clinton Era, I think it is at least the end of the era in which this gang was taken seriously.

[1Old Pro]

Well see if the NY Times covers the Bergler underwear story as much as the covered the Abu Garbage underwear story.

[JoeGar]

Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket, pants and socks ...

Halliburton and John Ashcroft made him do it.

[Phlap]

The whole commission was just a sham and allowing the likes of Richard Ben Veniste access to anything secrete was a huge error.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Has it been confirmed that he actually hid documents in his pants and socks?

Remember how someone 'leaked' that Clinton blew a gasket in his video testimony, then it turned out to be a ruse? I could see the Dems throwing out a silly embellishment to this story, then when it turns out to be false using that to ridicule the whole incident as 'lies, right-wing distortions, GOP propaganda', etc. They and their media tools seem to have a knack for fixating on any uncrossed t or undotted i and using that to bury and discredit real stories.

[P-Marlowe]

The revelation caused political fallout whose importance was not clear today.

I guess you don't have to graduate from high school to be a reporter (or an editor) for the NYTimes (as long as you can spin the news in the appropriate direction).

[Attillathehon]

First the article says some of the documents were "accidentally" discarded. Then, further down, it says "All of the documents and notes were returned by Mr. Berger to the archives in early October, within a week of his learning they were missing,

So have all of the documents been returned or is the NY Times trying to mislead us?

[over3Owithabrain]

Am I the first to nickname him Sandy "The Bulge" Berger?

[Oblongata]

"Mr. Berger inadvertently removed at least two slightly different versions of a memo critiquing how the government handled national intelligence and security issues before the millennium celebration in December 1999, as well as personal notes he had taken on classified documents, one of Mr. Berger's lawyers, Lanny Breuer, said Monday night."

I particularly like this quote from the second paragraph of the article. Deliberate obfuscation by the Times. I the first two words of the paragraph you learn that whatever Burgertime did it was inadvertant. It's not until the last three words and 4 commas later that you learn that that's how Burgerboy's attorney characterized the situation.