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Prosecutors: No Dice on Berger Deal
News Max ^ | 7-20-04

Posted on 07/20/2004 6:35:36 PM PDT by hope

Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:23 p.m. EDT

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.

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.

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crime; doj; government; oopsifilledmypants; sandyberger; sloppy; trousergate
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1 posted on 07/20/2004 6:35:39 PM PDT by hope
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To: hope

Man I Hope So!


2 posted on 07/20/2004 6:37:41 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Bong Hits, Fraggle Rock Reruns and DU is no way to go through Life.............)
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To: hope

Berger is toast.


3 posted on 07/20/2004 6:37:46 PM PDT by rintense (Free the Soxdox!)
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To: hope
jail time

God Bless America!

4 posted on 07/20/2004 6:38:02 PM PDT by GVnana (Tagline? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)
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To: hope

"IF" Martha has to go to jail for lying then old Sandy the Burglar must do time for stealing classified documents.


5 posted on 07/20/2004 6:38:28 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: hope

Martha Stewart's prosecutor. Bummer for Berger.


6 posted on 07/20/2004 6:38:32 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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To: hope
Kerry, win or lose, simply cannot deal with this ~ "Former Kerry advisor, Sandy Berger, sentenced to........"

Billzo skates again!

7 posted on 07/20/2004 6:38:51 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: hope

Sandy just may go down the river............or someone's going to start singin' like a bird.


8 posted on 07/20/2004 6:39:04 PM PDT by beyond the sea (There's always one to turn and walk away ........ and one who just wants to stay)
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To: hope

Jail time....I wonder what the Vegas odds are.


9 posted on 07/20/2004 6:39:13 PM PDT by Hildy ( If you don't stand up for what's RIGHT, you'll settle for what's LEFT.)
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To: hope

We'll make you a deal, Sandy, when you start singing about your bosses. Otherwise, expect bars in your future.

In other news, Clinton's laughing (nervously) about all this.


10 posted on 07/20/2004 6:39:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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To: hope

I'd like to see this better sourced. Maybe CNN will actually do some investigative reporting for once and come clean with all they know. But more likely they will continue to be DNC transcriptionists.


11 posted on 07/20/2004 6:39:58 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Hildy
Most of us bet that NOTHING will happen.

If it was any of us, we would be in jail tonight.

12 posted on 07/20/2004 6:40:36 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Then I say unto you, send men to summon ... worms. And let us go to Fallujah to collect heads.")
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To: cmsgop; rintense

I noticed today that Berger's lawyer offered they were "willing to cooperate".


13 posted on 07/20/2004 6:41:45 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: hope

I feel a lot better now...hope that justice will prevail...for a change.


14 posted on 07/20/2004 6:42:21 PM PDT by mystery-ak (*They are all Pat Tillman's*........Rush)
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To: hope

Things are looking up. Finally one of the clintonoids may pay the price.

If he did it for the clintons, then no doubt he will roll over like Webb Hubbell and shut up. If he did it for Kerry, well . . . it could be interesting.


15 posted on 07/20/2004 6:42:44 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: hope

Berger is going to be Fried.


16 posted on 07/20/2004 6:43:14 PM PDT by agincourt1415 (Dox N Sox)
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To: Mo1

I'd like to see better sourcing on this, but maybe CNN will come clean with what they know (if anything). Maybe a real investigative journalist will try to make a name for themselves and actually do some leg work on this story.


17 posted on 07/20/2004 6:43:19 PM PDT by Peach
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To: muawiyah

At least Clinton waited until he became President until his advisers became convicted felons.


18 posted on 07/20/2004 6:43:25 PM PDT by L`enn
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To: Peach
I'd like to see this better sourced. Maybe CNN will actually do some investigative reporting for once and come clean with all they know. But more likely they will continue to be DNC transcriptionists.

For a minute there you had me worried. Right up to the time you came back from Alice in Wonderland.

19 posted on 07/20/2004 6:44:40 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Jim Robinson

You think Clinton is nervous? You're joking?

Berger either takes the fall and rolls over and comes out of prison alive, like Webb Hubbell or Susan McDougal, or he cooperates, and suffers a "fatal heart attack" like Jim McDougal.


20 posted on 07/20/2004 6:45:39 PM PDT by ambrose (Kerry is endorsed by the Communist Party USA)
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