Posted on 07/20/2004 9:39:00 PM PDT by Pikamax
Berger Quits as An Adviser To Kerry Ex-Clinton Aide Facing Inquiry Over Papers
By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 21, 2004; Page A01
Clinton administration national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, under criminal investigation for removing copies of highly classified documents from the National Archives, severed his ties to John F. Kerry's campaign yesterday.
Berger, who has been the subject of an investigation since October, stepped down as Kerry's informal adviser on foreign policy and national security as the campaign moved quickly to stem the unfolding story's political damage.
A government official with knowledge of the probe said Berger removed from archives files all five or six drafts of a critique of the government's response to the millennium terrorism threat, which he said was classified "codeword," the government's highest level of document security.
A Kerry adviser said the expanding controversy convinced the campaign that Berger's departure was essential because of the serious distraction it posed for Kerry in the week before the Democratic Party will nominate him for president.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Did the Rats have a promise that it would not be made public?
"In Democratic political circles yesterday, speculation was widespread on the personal damage to Berger -- who for two decades has been a voice of rising influence in the foreign party establishment
By "the foreign party", I assume they are refering to either Soros, the French or the Chinese, or whichever foreign power the Dems are working for these days.
Breuer said Berger also tucked handwritten notes he made from the classified documents into his pockets and removed them without allowing archives officials to review them, as required by law. He knew removing the handwritten notes was a violation, Breuer said...
Quite a damning article. At first blush I thought this was gonna be a one day story, but now this is smelling like something much bigger.
Is Hell freezing over?
Aside from the inherently funny picture that pops up at the use of the term sensitve fruits in an article about a Democrat stuffing his pants...
I recall there were some wiretaps mentioned in an article which came out where Richard clarke was played as the hero and so was all the clinton staff as they sat around dlistening to a tape of terrorists talking about a "big wedding." Maybe that article doesn't match the reality. Or maybe it just didn't bring up the juicier parts of the wiretap.
This is BIG...it has legs! :-)
Precious...
busy busy busy
Jordanian security agents had intercepted a telephone call between an al-Qaida leader and a suspected Jordanian terrorist. In the call, Abu Zubaydah, the No. 3 man in al-Qaida, said cryptically, "The grooms are ready for the big wedding" a signal that plans were in motion.
The WaPo goes front page and the gravity and seriousness of Berger's actitivities becomes more evident.
No Joke folks we are watching history unfold here. This will be bigger than watergate. If Kerry knew... He is toast... If Clinton knew Hillarys toast, if the 911 commission new... they are toast... With Clintons remarks you know it is panic time. He will yet again cost them another election.
"For all those who know and love him, it's easy to see how this could happen," one former Clinton colleague said.
They're in trouble -- all they have is the "incompetence defense." I'd be embarrased to even say the above, because he was the National Security Advisor to the former President of the United States. I wouldn't trust someone like this to look after my pets!
This proves what a childish frathouse the Boy Clinton White House was. It's amazing that we're still alive.
NAME YOUR SOURCE AND POST IT NOW!
We can only hope.
This time,I want to see Sandy in chains,doing the perp walk.
Some of us aren't........those Clinton frat boys caused 9/11 and more.
What this does tell us folks is.... BERGER DIDN'T GET ALL THE COPIES..... how would the intellegence source know what was in the memos if they had disapeared... they must have been scanned and dipshi* Berger didnt know it.... he is so SO SO in trouble.
You are so right! The spin is working overtime and nothing, and I mean nothing will come of this most horrific act of perhaps treason, who knows what they did with this information? I am so sick of these corrupt Clintonites who are selling out this country, breaking every law and just freaking getting a pass!!!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-world/terroristwithin/chapter1.html
It's one of the suck-up to Bubba articles that appears to set the stage for Clarke's 15 minutes of fame.
not this time.... No ...you see it is out, and it is HUGE, this one will NOT go away.
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