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Are we having Fun yet?????
I vote for this being the Official picture of this Escapade of SOXGATE!
Posted on 07/20/2004 11:55:56 AM PDT by Liz
When nabbed stuffing top-secret material down his pants and socks to spirit them out of the National Archives, Berger was in the process of testifying before the 911 Commission about the extent of his and the Clinton administration's efforts (or lack thereof) to brief the incoming Bush administration about security issues which led to the 9/11 WTC and Pentagon bombings.
Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger was National Security Advisor to President Clinton beginning December 6, 1996. Berger was born on October 28, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. His father eager to leave the city moved the family to Millerton, New York.
Berger graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Law School. After law school, he became speechwriter for George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign where he met the future President Bill Clinton.
When Jimmy Carter won the Presidency in 1976 Berger served as deputy director of policy planning at the State Department under Anthony Lake the man he would replace as national security advisor.
Then, Berger worked in the foreign policy section of Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign where his boss at that job was Madeline Albright. Albright would later be appointed secretary of state at the same time Berger would be appointed national security advisor.
Berger was a partner for the Washington law firm of Hogan and Hartson from 1981-1992. Berger and his wife Susan have three children, Deborah, Sarah and Alexander.
The goals and purpose of the national security team which Berger is a part of, is to address both long and short term global policy making and keep the president up to date on all issues involving world problems. Berger said in an early interview, "I think what I have learned is that our job here is to both try to make sure that the President gets the best, sharpest information possible so he can make well informed decisions." Berger’s job more specifically is to be an essential foreign policy guide and traffic cop for the president, coordinating communication between the Oval Office and Cabinet members. Another aspect of his job is to inform the American people what the objectives of the White House are as far as foreign policy goes, especially in the Middle East." I think that American foreign policy has to make sense to the American people, and I think that means it has to be communicated to them well," says Berger.
Berger as a very close friend of President Clinton was often asked to do more than most National Security Advisors of the past. For instance, his office approached then-CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Sesno to arrange the time and location of a "town meeting."
Berger has no enemies in his position except certain members of the Republican party that do not agree with anything about a Clinton-run White House.
Berger is quick witted, blunt, and hard hitting when it comes to defending his views, yet he never hits below the belt. He has been criticized by some for being too passive which nevertheless mirrors Berger’s personality and politics: studied centrism, between aggression and indifference. " I’ve always said containment is aesthetically displeasing but strategically sufficient," erger stated. "You wake up in the morning and [Saddam Hussein] is still there and it would be far preferable than if he weren’t. As for getting Saddam.’ Most Americans would recognize that option would be emotionally gratifying, but the costs of it would be greater than our national interest."
Sources
www.whitehouse.gov/wh/eop/html
Los Angeles Times December 6,1996 page 20
The Washington Post February 24,1998
The New York Times December 6, 1996 page 8
I was wondering what his relationship to Lake was--very interesting.
Ping.
thanks:
Here's the new list I'm posting all over these threads so this story gettings Serious Legs.
The New York Times: (212) 556-7652
The New York Post: (212) 930-8000
ABC: 212-456-7777
CBS: 212-975-4321
NBC: 212-664-4444
CNN: 404-237-0234
Fox:1-888-369-4762
NY York Daily News (212) 210-NEWS
Bill O'Reily
E-mail: oreilly@foxnews.com
Sean Hannity
hannity@foxnews.com
Alan Colmes
colmes@foxnews.com
Phylis Schlafly
eagle@eagleforum.org
Oliver North
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Janet Parshall, conservative talk show host
(703) 276-8597
Fax: (703) 516-7212
E-Mail us at: info@jpamerica.com
Brit Hume
Special Report with Brit Hume
Special@foxnews.com
Hugh Hewitt (conservative talk show host/columnist)
http://www.hughhewitt.com/
Michael Medved (conservative talk show host/columnist)
http://www.michaelmedved.com/contact.shtml
I got these addresses from Media Research Center,
http://www.mediaresearch.org/MediaAddresses/mediaaddresses.asp#If%20the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
e-mail: conedit@ajc.com
Houston Chronicle
e-mail: viewpoints@chron.com
Miami Herald
e-mail: HeraldEd@herald.com
The New York Times
letters@nytimes.com
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
e-mail: letters@post-gazette.com
USA Today
e-mail: editor@usatoday.com
The Wall Street Journal
e-mail: letter.editor@edit.wsj.com
The Washington Post
e-mail: Letterstoed@washpost.com
The Washington Times
e-mail: wtnews@wt.infi.net
Nice work. Hope everybody pings their lists to this thread to gain access to those links.
Berger is quick witted, blunt, and hard hitting when it comes to defending his views, yet he never hits below the belt...............
He can't hit below the belt. It's filled with stolen documents.
I think the Clintons may have told old SandyPants to go in there and get whatever.......... or else (F.M.P.).
Heheh.....good one.
This thread has the Kerry anti-terrorism position that someone took off his web site "after" the Berger Boy's pantload made headlines. Pass it along.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175028/posts?q=1&&page=101
Very heavy! Something stinks.
I just love it when they find a guy who has worked with McGovern, Carter, Clinton and Kerry and then determine that he is a "Centrist".
Ahem, after all...
"Berger has no enemies in his position except certain members of the Republican party that do not agree with anything about a Clinton-run White House. "
No bias there eh.
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Now we have Soxgate with Bergler.
It all adds up to Suxgate.
Leni
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Are we having Fun yet?????
I vote for this being the Official picture of this Escapade of SOXGATE!
I am still having lots of Fun with your photo......
Thanks!!!
CNN no longer has the Bergler story on their home page. Apparently, it is not newsworthy.
LOL.......ready for a another raid on the Ntl Archives.
Should be ---
Sandy sent me a note and a photo:
To me that Photo says it all....About the Way the Clinton National Security Adviser and Clinton treated our National Security.....
It's the perfect Berger photo.
After all, Clinton said the whole
story is laughable: not serious at all.
Except when stuffing national secrets in his pants! Now I KNOW that David Letterman has been in cahoots with Mr. Buger (whoops, I left out an "r"), because he popularized the phrase "IN YOUR PANTS!" Oh! And Letterman's company is named "WORLDWIDE PANTS!"
I didn't know that.......Thanks!
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