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Fallout Continues Over Clinton Aide's Handling of Secret Memos
New York Times ^

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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INADVERTANTLY?

I guess that's another one of those semantic thingies - like what IS means.

1 posted on 07/20/2004 1:46:34 PM PDT by bikepacker67
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To: bikepacker67

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!


2 posted on 07/20/2004 1:50:22 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: bikepacker67

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."


3 posted on 07/20/2004 1:50:52 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Proud to be a Reagan Alumna!)
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To: bikepacker67
Look at how they wrote that second paragraph:

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.

4 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:09 PM PDT by dirtboy (John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
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To: bikepacker67

A more appropriate title would be "Enough People Now Know About This, So We Have To Report It As Well"


5 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:21 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance ( "Stay safe in the "sandbox", cuz!)
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To: bikepacker67

INADVERTANTLY=In his socks. You can look it up. #;^)


6 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:24 PM PDT by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU, I trust this post will make you sick)
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To: Texas_Jarhead

whoops. I missed the end of that long sentence where it says, "..Lanny Breuer, said Monday night."


7 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:45 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: bikepacker67
The political fallout continued today over revelations that President Clinton's national security advisor,

Continues? Man it's just starting! Berger seriously broke the law - try to spin that NY Slimes!
8 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: bikepacker67

NYT conclusion: Happens all the time. Fuggedaboudit.


9 posted on 07/20/2004 1:51:58 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: bikepacker67

The fallout continues "today?" I just heard about this for the first time at 10pm last night.


10 posted on 07/20/2004 1:53:18 PM PDT by dougiefresh
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whoops. I missed the end of that long sentence where it says, "..Lanny Breuer, said Monday night."

Exactly the intended result.

11 posted on 07/20/2004 1:53:35 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: bikepacker67

INADVERTANTLY shoved into his socks. Nixon is laughing his dead *** off.


12 posted on 07/20/2004 1:54:10 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: Rummyfan

No doubt that he broke the law, but don't worry, this will all be soon swept under the rug.


13 posted on 07/20/2004 1:54:44 PM PDT by kildak
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To: bikepacker67

Well it is like when I inadvertantly RUN a stop light at 85 miles per hour...


14 posted on 07/20/2004 1:54:59 PM PDT by antivenom ("Never argue with an idiot, he'll bring you down to his level - then beat you with experience.")
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Mr. Berger inadvertently removed at least two slightly different versions of a memo

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 ...

15 posted on 07/20/2004 1:57:39 PM PDT by cinFLA
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NYT desperately trying to cover for Sandy "Pantload" Berger and Kerry campaign...Berger stepped down as Kerry adviser.
16 posted on 07/20/2004 2:00:50 PM PDT by Tamzee (Flush the Johns before they flood the White House!)
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INADVERTANTLY?

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!

17 posted on 07/20/2004 2:04:03 PM PDT by BluH2o
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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


18 posted on 07/20/2004 2:05:16 PM PDT by ebiskit
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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.


19 posted on 07/20/2004 2:06:04 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
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20 posted on 07/20/2004 2:06:52 PM PDT by votelife (Calling abortion a women's issue is like calling war a men's issue!)
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