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Berger Story -- Dem Talking Points -- It's The Timing of the Leak, Not the Offense!
CNN ^ | 07-20-04 | cww

Posted on 07/20/2004 1:09:02 PM PDT by CWW

Have you noticed the consistent media spin about the theft of the confidential documents by former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger -- "It's the timing of the leak that's curious" -- not the fact that Berger engaged in illegal conduct they may invovle Clinton or Kerry.

I have now heard this spin on CNN radio, Fox News and, of course, the Today Show.

If Berger had been a Republican, do you think the media would give a rats a@@ abouth the "timing of the disclosure?"


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: berger; elections; media; pantload; sandyberger; soxgate
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To: CWW

Well, what else could we expect? Remember the "memo-gate" debacle a few months ago? I'm sure they think that what worked then will work now.


21 posted on 07/20/2004 1:16:11 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski (No good deed goes unpunished.)
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To: CWW
The real question, that the lamestream media isn't asking, is what was so important that the former National Security Advisor would stuff highly-classified documents down his pants and socks!?

great question! Add to the list this question: Doesn't Berger's incompetent/criminal behavior raise questions about the competence of Clinton's national security team? Doesn't this prove that Berger was more of a second rate political hack than someone qualified to be National Security Advisor?

22 posted on 07/20/2004 1:16:35 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: Wiser now

Or the October, 2000 report of President Bush's DUI arrest years ago in Maine.


23 posted on 07/20/2004 1:17:07 PM PDT by RexBeach (Before God makes you greedy, he makes you stupid.)
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To: CWW
Hmmmm...

If I recall correctly, the Abu Ghraib prison story was being investigated by the Army back in January as soon as they found out about it, but the media didn't report on it until a few months ago. Suspicious timing or just time to report it after the investigation was complete?

Now we have this story, where the theft of top secret documents was being investigated, and then after the investigation is complete and documents retrieved, the results are released.

Since when has the spiking of news and the timed release of it become more important than just releasing the news of an investigation once the investigation concludes?

-PJ

24 posted on 07/20/2004 1:17:09 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (It's not safe yet to vote Democrat.)
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To: Wiser now

Don't forget the "DUI discovery"


25 posted on 07/20/2004 1:18:01 PM PDT by Flightdeck (Procrastinate later)
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To: WoodstockCat
how is it that you accidently do the same thing over five visits?

He was looking at the documents five times? I wonder if he was bringing in fixed uped documents and taking the real ones away.

26 posted on 07/20/2004 1:18:09 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's floats, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: cripplecreek

Well, it's not a October surprise! Sounds more like fools tripping over their own shoelaces.


27 posted on 07/20/2004 1:18:21 PM PDT by Milligan
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To: siunevada
how is it that you accidently do the same thing over five visits? You do that very, very inadvertently. It's......a habit.

Berger was slated on a short list to be (are you ready for this?) Kerry's Secretary of State!!!

These people have a "talent" only for stealing elections (1992, 1996). The rat party is an absolute clear and present danger to you and me personally... to our very lives and the lives of our loved ones.

28 posted on 07/20/2004 1:18:49 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Puppage

RICO, baby! RICO!


29 posted on 07/20/2004 1:19:10 PM PDT by Hessian (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: CWW
It's The Timing of the Leak, Not the Offense!

Its the timing of the missile strike, not the nature of the grand jury!

30 posted on 07/20/2004 1:20:25 PM PDT by blanknoone (The NAACP --->NAADP National Association for the Advancement of the Democrat Party.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

How did you know this info about Berger? I wonder if the Chinese are good friends with Mr. Berger? I wonder if Mr. Berger knows where the missing file from Los Alomos is as well?


31 posted on 07/20/2004 1:20:58 PM PDT by truthingod
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To: Hessian
RICO, baby! RICO!

They're Italian, too?

32 posted on 07/20/2004 1:21:05 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: CWW

Well, it was similar with the Dem Judiciary and Intel memos---the Pubbies didn't get any traction out of the memos' contents, but the Dems got a boost by their feigned rage at 'who leaked it.'

The trouble is, the Pubbies folded on both issues. I would bet the Pubbies will fold on this too, and it will just disappear. The Pubbies seem completely inept and incapable of capitalizaing on events whenever Dems get caught with their hands in the cookie jar or caught with their pants down.


33 posted on 07/20/2004 1:21:43 PM PDT by TomGuy (After 20 years in the Senate, all Kerry has to run on is 4 months of service in Viet Nam.)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Here's a question that Rush posed re: the complaints about the timing:

Ask a person protesting the timing of this "leak" if they would have preferred it to come out before this, or after this?
34 posted on 07/20/2004 1:22:17 PM PDT by cincy29
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To: CWW

Somebody help me here. Why does Sandy Berger, no longer in a classified government position, still have a security clearance?


35 posted on 07/20/2004 1:22:38 PM PDT by fat city (Julius Rosenberg's soviet code name was "Liberal")
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To: CWW

I want to know why we weren't told earlier! I think they leaked it to take off the sting!


36 posted on 07/20/2004 1:23:17 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get moose and squirrel ... B. Badanov)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Someone on Sean's program said that, too.


37 posted on 07/20/2004 1:25:03 PM PDT by MamaB (mom to an angel)
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To: CWW
"The real question, that the lamestream media isn't asking, is what was so important that the former National Security Advisor would stuff highly-classified documents down his pants and socks!"

At least some of the documents appear to be related to the Millennium Plot Report. Ashcroft has detailed some of what was conatined in the report.

The most damaging information is that Clinton was briefed concerning Al Qaeda activity in America and did absolutely nothing. Not only that, but he didn't brief the Bush administration as to the fact that Al Qaeda was active in America and was planning a major attack.

38 posted on 07/20/2004 1:26:36 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Senator_Blutarski

That is precisely what they believe.

It won't work, not on this. Republicans might well be inclined to provide him the "benefit of the doubt". They might cower beneath the weight of the media. The American public will not.

This is serious, it doesn't take lengthy discussion to outline the fact. It involves 9-11. It is sensational enough to arouse curiosity. Sandy once assumed office comparable to Condi Rice. He is connected to both Clintons as well as Kerry. Richard Clarke is being connected to this incident.

This is not comparable to the judicial scandal.

This is huge DESPITE the media or Democrats and they know it.


39 posted on 07/20/2004 1:27:13 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: CWW

Another real question is WHO would benefit by bringing this Berger (currently advising JF Kerry) "pant load" to the media a few days before the Demon convention to injure Kerry's team ?

One guess. She's warming up in the bull pen as we speak.


40 posted on 07/20/2004 1:27:31 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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