Posted on 07/20/2004 6:35:36 PM PDT by hope
Prosecutors: No Dice on Berger Deal Justice Department prosecutors have reportedly rejected several offers from former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's lawyer to resolve the department's eight-month long investigation into his illegal removal of top secret documents from the 9/11 Commission's reading room. In the intervening months, Breuer has renewed Berger's offer to come clean several times. But in a bad omen for the former top Clinton national security official, the Justice Department has repeatedly rebuffed the offer and refused to enter into any discussions. Instead, Deputy Attorney General James Comey warned Tuesday that Berger - who resigned hours ago as a top campaign advisor to presidential candidate John Kerry - could face jail time. "It is against the law for anyone to intentionally mishandle classified information, either by taking it to give to somebody else, or by mishandling in a way that is outside the regulations of government information," Comey told reporters in Washington. "We take issues of classified information very, very seriously," he added. "It's our lifeblood to keep secrets. All felonies in the federal system bring with them the promise of jail time," Comey stressed, adding cryptically, "That's all I can say about that." As U.S. Attorney for New York's Southern District, Comey oversaw the indictment of Martha Stewart for lying to federal investigators. Stewart was sentenced to five months in jail last week.
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Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:23 p.m. EDT
Two sources associated with the investigation told CNN that lawyer Lanny Breuer made a detailed statement of Berger's view of the facts at issue several months ago. According to the unnamed sources, Berger has offered to talk to the Justice Department about a resolution to the probe.
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Just occurred to me--let's refer to the archives scandal as the "Folies Bergere"!
http://www.foliesbergere.com/
How apropos--it's French!
Has anyone attempted to answer that, by the way? That seems like an attempt to cover up to me.
See http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/793.html
Arrest Berger. I have had enough.
Elaborate please... where did you get this info? I must've missed it (it's mighty late for me...)
Rack him! The have done the same many times and much worse. They drove Newt and Bob Livingston out.
Put the wood to him. Let Sandy Bergler twist in the wind.
Most of us understand the meaning. Where have you been?
Someone wrote that the archivist was apparently a connected Dem and sat on some Dem committee or something like that.
Wooooooooooo Hooooooooooooooooooo...be still my heart! :-)
I haven't read every thread here but to my knowledge it hasn't been answered. It occurs to me that Clinton may have made his attorney the point man so he could coordinate his spin and cover his tracks later. What I wonder is if they first contacted Berger and her referred them to the attorney or if the attorney was contacted first.
***why else would the archive employees call a clinton lawyer instead of the FBI?***
I've been looking for the answer to that also and have not found anything beyond that one statement which makes me feel like a durn mushroom. It makes me assume that the employees have drank the koolaid and only let the FBI in on it because other less partisan employees were in on the "know".
It may be Berger who told them WHO to call, but it doesn't necessarily mean that the archivist was told it was an attorney. Kinda suggests that Berger might have just wanted to get out of there, i.e., not be detained. "I'll take it from here," said the attorney. "I've know Sandy for years".
I can barely wait until November to cast my vote for George W. Bush. I truly believe he is going to throw this sick p.o.s. Berger in jail.
I'm not sure how you could assume otherwise. I mean how does Berger go into a monitored room and leave carrying documents without believing he's covered?
Oops, don't forget Zell Miller.
5 Months for Martha,
5 YEARS for Berger!
LOL!!! CBS.
Har har har!
That's THE best specualtion I have seen on any thread about this topic and probably true.
Clinton was president then.
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