NYT: "Kerry Adviser Steps Aside Over Documents" (Gray Lady does a front page Berger Burn)

New York Times ^ | July 20, 2004 | New York Times

[GOPJ]

BINGO:

Hiding the papers in your clothes rather than carry them out in plain sight is EVIDENCE of the FORE-KNOWLEDGE of WRONGDOING.

"Inadvertantly" is reduced, therefore to a lie.

[notforhire]

He's only been an "informal advisor" since this story broke.

Any mention of his role in the Kerry campaign prior to this news list him as a "Key Advisor", or as I saw in one piece last night, a "Chief Advisor"

[Wil H]

...and there will be a picture of Fawn Hall to accompany this ( I hope)...

[conservative in nyc]

From the Slimes' spin:

Mr. Breuer, the lawyer, said Mr. Berger inadvertently put three or four versions of the report on the plots in a leather portfolio he had with him. "He had lots of papers, and the memos got caught up in the portfolio," he said. "It was an accident."

Mr. Berger also put in his jacket and pants pockets handwritten notes that he had made during his review of the documents, Mr. Breuer said.

--Snip---

Mr. Breuer responded, "If there's a suggestion that he's shoving things down his pants, that is categorically false and ridiculous."

I assume Sandy Burglar's DNC mouthpiece lawyer would say the same thing about the allegations Mr. Burglar put things in his socks.

[elhombrelibre]

Yes, let's hope Fawn's picture is splashed all over. She was quite attractive then, and I'm sure she still is.

[MississippiMan]

Berger always had the appearance of a good-hearted oaf when he was Clinton's imp. IMHO. Of course, that's a bad enough assessment of the frigging National Security Advisor, but as it turns out now, it's way worse: Irrefutable proof that yet another Clinton cronie is nothing more than a two-bit thug.

I'm trying to figure this thing out. I have a VERY hard time believing the GOP is behind this leakage. If they were, there's no way the media would cooperate by giving it this much play. Which makes me think it's straight from the Clintons, a torpedo fired straight at the Kerry campaign, in order to preserve 2008 for the Beastess.

MM

[Plutarch]

The New York Times article for July 21, by a different reporter. No indication whether this will be on front page:

July 21, 2004

A Kerry Adviser Leaves the Race Over Missing Documents

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, July 20 - Samuel R. Berger, the former national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, resigned abruptly Tuesday as a senior adviser to John Kerry's presidential campaign after the disclosure that he had improperly removed classified material on terrorism from a secure government reading room last year.

The decision came after Mr. Berger endured a day of furious criticism from Republican leaders, who accused him of breaching national security and possibly passing classified material to Mr. Kerry's campaign. Democrats, in turn, accused the Bush administration of leaking word of an F.B.I. investigation of Mr. Berger as a way of diverting attention from the release of the Sept. 11 commission's final report Thursday.

Mr. Berger told reporters Tuesday evening outside his Washington office: "Last year, when I was in the archives reviewing documents, I made an honest mistake. It's one that I deeply regret."

Associates of Mr. Berger said that although his mishandling of the classified material was inadvertent, he had decided late in the day to step down at least temporarily from the campaign because he did not want to detract from the Kerry effort... [excerpt]

NYT: A Kerry Adviser Leaves the Race Over Missing Documents

[185JHP]

The St. Valentines Day Massacre was mishandling of bullets?

[Piranha]

Clinton is quoted on Drudge as saying that he knew about this investigation for months.

As Roger L. Simon wrote on his weblog, this is not good for Kerry. If Clinton knew, then did Kerry know as well -- and still keep Berger on as a senior (albeit unpaid) advisor? What does this say about his judgment? And if Clinton knew and Kerry did not know, then who told Clinton and why didn't Kerry know?

It sounds funny, but the real question is, "John Kerry, what did you know and when did you know it?"

[Piranha]

Someone stretched from "unpaid advisor" to "unofficial advisor", I think.

[Ann Archy]

yOU SAID........The Rat convention is really heating up to be a Kennedy (Kerry} vs. Clinton (Clinton) battle for the Rat party.

It's like what's happening in Palestine!!! Pop The Popcorn!!

[Ann Archy]

Informal Advisor my Clymer! Like Sandy Burglar would do something for free! Yeah right.

[JSteff]

If the democratic party, Kerry, and the NY Slimes is giving a Clinton admin member a front page bad news story... you know there is something else even bigger they are trying to divert our attention from.

Mark my words.

[nopardons]

You are,of course,absoutely correct.

If the GOPers were to start foaming at the mouth,the hue and cry,from the damned Dems,would get the facts of Sandy's crimes out if view;completey out of the news.

[nopardons]

Forget all about Hillary! This is tarring them even MORE,than it is Kerry.

[Fawnn]

I hope you're correct!

[nopardons]

I usually am. :-)

[Plutarch]

Wednesday's NYT Front Page. Well, now we know. The least conspicuous above the fold column in a newspaper is the one on the far left.

And sure enough, a Google search reveals that the NYT considers the far right column the most important:

…the upper right-hand corner of the front page—the spot The Times reserves for the story it deems the day's most important.

This means that Microsoft's dividend is more important than the minor little technical legal problem in which Kerry's chief foreign policy advisor has inadvertently found himself in.

MSN article on NYT redesign

[rwfromkansas]

Exactly.

MULTIPLE INCIDENTS.

STUFFING IN MULTIPLE PLACES.

I am a guy who tries to give the benefit of the doubt to even Dems.

But, I am sorry, there is literally NO CHANCE he took these by accident. He stole classified docs. That is serious.