Posted on 07/20/2004 6:15:31 PM PDT by traumer
Joe Lockhart claims ex-aide didn't hide secret docs in his hose
Former colleagues of Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger challenged allegations that the ex-aide stuffed classified documents in his socks to remove them from a secure reading room prior to his 9-11 Commission testimony.
Federal officials have launched a criminal investigation into the former aide, who now advises Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, for pocketing highly classified terrorism documents.
Though Fox News is reporting Berger and his lawyer said last night he knowingly removed handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket, pants and socks, CNN reports law-enforcement sources say some of the actual secret documents he reviewed were stuffed in his socks before leaving the room.
Joe Lockhart, Clinton's former spokesman, says Berger "categorically denies that he ever took documents and stuffed them in his socks," according to CNN.
"That is absurd," said Lockhart, who is now advising Berger. "And anyone who says that is interested in something other than the truth."
Former Clinton aide Lanny Davis wants the official who leveled the sock-stuffing allegation to come forward and make the claim publicly.
"I suggest that person is lying," the news channel quotes him as saying. "And if that person has the guts, let's see who it is who made the comment that Sandy Berger stuffed something into his socks."
Davis called Berger "a person of impeccable honesty and integrity."
"He spent nights and 24-hour time periods before the millennium doing, I think, a critical job in thwarting a terrorist attack between 1999 and 2000, New Year's Eve," Davis told CNN's "American Morning."
"What we're told ... [is] he took copies of those memos inadvertently in his own notes. There's absolutely no basis for suggesting there is any national security issues here or harm done here."
Berger has said he regrets the "sloppiness" involved in his actions.
Did anybody see the look on Sen. Bill Nelson's face when they asked him about Berger? His eyes go real big, stuttered, and then talked about partisanism in Washington. I think his secretary forgot to give him his DNC talking points that morning.
That would be my guess. LOL
Remember from the Clinton years, "First, deny everything."
"It's not a crime" is also a talking point (the DUmmies have said that "these were his notes anyway"). I guess that the left has given up complaining about the erased portion of the Nixon tapes.
"I didn't stuff stuff in my socks. I have Argyle tattoos on my legs." Case closed.
Berger's pilfering gives new meaning to classified briefs.
Maybe he borrowed and was using Hillary's briefs and could stuff a whole lot of documents into them.
[Maybe he borrowed and was using Hillary's briefs and could stuff a whole lot of documents into them.]
Ha ha ha! they would be big enough to fit all the docs generated by that adminstration!
Yes --- the classified briefs smuggled out in a brief case, but not in a briefcase.
But, how do Kerry & Edwards fit into all this ?
They have no connection - yet it may hurt their 'cause'...
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