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Mr. Berger is the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation, not the target of one. The distinction is crucial. A subject is a person whose activities are of interest to investigators; a target is a person who might be charged with actual wrongdoing.

"Now, I don't know what happened to these documents after they were put in Mr. Berger's pants," Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said today. "It's been reported in the press that these documents related to homeland security at our airports and at our seaports. And it's very interesting to note that those are two areas where Senator Kerry has been very critical of our Homeland Security Department."

A spokesman for the commission, Al Felzenberg, told The Associated Press today that Mr. Berger's actions would have no effect on the work of the panel, which Mr. Felzenberg said had had access to all the materials it needed.

While Democrats had seemed inclined to give Mr. Berger the benefit of the doubt and accept his explanation that the incident with the documents was inadvertent, Republicans were decidedly less charitable.

WE were charitable with bill clinton and look what happened
He killed a Camel and an aspirine factory a box of cuban cigars and a intern [well he didnt kill the intern !] but the respect for office of the President went into the toilet !