Posted on 07/20/2004 1:46:33 PM PDT by bikepacker67
WASHINGTON, July 20 The political fallout continued today over revelations that President Clinton's national security advisor, Samuel R. Berger, removed classified national security documents from the National Archives while vetting them in preparation for testimony before the Sept. 11 commission.
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.
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I guess that's another one of those semantic thingies - like what IS means.
They don't even bother to say something like "Mr. Berger claims". Instead they state, as if proven fact, that they were accidentally removed. What a bunch of BS!
Ha! That was the lead sentence in the earlier article! At least they have moved it to the second paragraph now, and also acknowledged that the "fallout is growing."
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.
Now, let's write it more honestly:
According to a statement released Monday night by Lanny Breuer, one of Berger's lawyers, 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.
The first makes "inadvertent" seem like a factual news item - you don't get that it is a claim from an attorney until the end. The second way makes it clear that this is a statement from the lawyer.
A more appropriate title would be "Enough People Now Know About This, So We Have To Report It As Well"
INADVERTANTLY=In his socks. You can look it up. #;^)
whoops. I missed the end of that long sentence where it says, "..Lanny Breuer, said Monday night."
NYT conclusion: Happens all the time. Fuggedaboudit.
The fallout continues "today?" I just heard about this for the first time at 10pm last night.
Exactly the intended result.
INADVERTANTLY shoved into his socks. Nixon is laughing his dead *** off.
No doubt that he broke the law, but don't worry, this will all be soon swept under the rug.
Well it is like when I inadvertantly RUN a stop light at 85 miles per hour...
Honestly! I thought the papers I was stuffing down my briefs were blank. I just wanted to impress the clerk as I walked by her! Unfortunately, she saw me stuffing the papers ...
Yeah ... inadvertently stuffed classified documents down my trousers, in my socks, under my jacket, and into my leather portfolio. Documents, as former security chief for the Clintonistas, I knew full well to be both sensitive and classified ... documents found in a secure reading room that was established expressly for the purpose of allowing only 9-11 commission personal access to research, but explicitly not remove, said documentation. Inadvertent my ass!
What did John Kerry know and when did he know it?
Kerry just smelt the fart in church and is trying to distance himself from Berg/er. Can't let that happen. The Klinton slime is everywhere. I think I need a shower.
peace...D
Did whoever is in charge of the Library of Congress just let him take what he wanted without making a record of it and seeing that it was returned? Sounds like someone wasnt doing their job.
good translation!
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