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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Top-of-the-hour (5 PM) news on the radio (I was listening to Hannity).
...............Dan Rather opens with his top story about the soon to be released Report and some changes some of the members wish to make as last minute corrections. Blah, blah ,blah. He then went onto other stories.
NO MENTION OF SANDY BURGLER!
Yeah! I don't know how they wound up in his socks, of all places. Is that where we are supposed to carry all our important papers?
If any of you wish to puke, just watch CNN spin this... Lanny is doing the disco duck.
Exactly! This is what is so SOOO frustrating- the public needs to know not only that Mr. Berger played fast and loose with the laws of national security- but WHO in their right mind in the National Archives waited til the 2nd or 3rd time to inform the authorities of documents being removed...in such a sneaky way.
I'm furious with the way this article was written- calling the NYT right now to sound off...
Next thing you know, the New York Times will maintain that he "inadvertently" stuffed an office chair up his huge rear end.
Inadvertant? Discovered them and then waited for a week to return them? Made notes of national security documents and took them with him?
Who did he share them with? If anyone else got a copy or heads up from his 'notes', he broke the national security laws of this country.
Notes? I don got to show you my stinking notes!
Any group (the Rats and the mainstream media employees) that can accept Joshua Steiner's "I lied to my diary" to explain the incriminating evidence in his diary -- a document that was in the hands of the Senate committee investigating the Clinton pukes' shenanigans at the RTC -- will have no trouble cutting the legs off this story. You cannot shame mainstream media employees but you can sure laugh at them.
The pig liberal media spins everything for the good of the party.
That's what I like about Free Republic. A forum filled with educated people who can recognize how language can be used to present a reality that conforms to your views without actually lying. I've actually used some freeper analyses of articles in class with my students to show them how to recognize opinion masquerading as fact. KUDOS to the most erudite Forum on the worldwideweb.
Back when I was going through News-writing 101, that would automatically result in a failing grade. These days, sheesh....
WASHINGTON, July 20 — The political fallout began today...
It wasn't the Library of Congress it was the Natinal Archives.
I have a background in journalism, and I have to say that the way this is written is "technically" correct because the writer attributes it to Berger's lawyer; however, the writer places the emphasis of the story on Berger's explanation...that he "inadvertently" took the documents, instead of the most important and newsworthy fact that he is the subject of a criminal investigation.
We all know how the NYTimes would treat this article if it were Condi Rice. ie. "Republican NSA steals highly classified documents....blah blah blah"
Memo to NY Slimes - clinton is NOT president; nor is bergler SNA.
clintbilly is the IMPEACHED former president, bergler is the FORMER SNA.
This has to be one of the best examples of outright collusion betwen NYT and Dems I have yet to see.
Of course with both Dems and NYT they need to keep changing the story, and that has to be expensive also. Expensive as in another decade out of power, longer if justice is ever served.
What a bonehead Gergen is. Bergler admits that he removed classified documents from a secure government facility. That in itself compromises the security of the United States.
If any FReepers are going to the Boston convention, I suggest showing up with lots of papers stuffed in your pants and socks.
Perhaps the Doppler shift caused the light to look green?
What a bonehead traitor Gergen is.
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