Two and a half hours later and this newsworthy item has NOT made it to FoxNS. Methinks SeeBS suffers from wishfull thinking.
At a Minimum, he should loose his Security Clearance. As has been demonstrated, he is incapable of safeguarding classified information.
With the Loss of his clearance, he would not be eligible to advise anyone on or be privy to Classified information.
This is the course of action we must pursue. Take away his abilty to interact in this realm.
IMHO
If Bush and the Justice Department do not prosecute him for this, then I give up the Republican Party. This is an OUTRAGE. Any military officer would have already been kicked out and charged with crimes over this. At the very least this would be a career ending move for him.
The law is quite clear about removing classified documents from a secure facility and it matters not whethere the documents were the originals or copies. It is the information that is being protected not the paper that it is written on. This is just more wishful thinking from CBS based on an unnamed Democrat that is just guessing and hoping.
Jed Babbin, undersecretary of Defense in the George H. W. Bush administration was on KSFO radio (san francisco) this morning. He said it DIDN'T MATTER whether or not these were copies. They were highly classified documents, under strict (supposedly) control at the archives. What Berglar did was highly illegall. I hope that this "No Charges" report isn't true.
I want to know what document he replaced with sterilized information.
We never get the full story, and like x42i's MonicaGate I can see a much jucier story behind the hyperboil the media is allowing to fester.
The "mislocation" of 900+ FBI files is a felony.
No one was charged. No one will be charged.
Same song, different verse.
As I understand it, each of the copies of a draft report were saved as each of the copies had marginal notes on them, written by the reviewer of the draft. Thus, each of the text copies, became originals once they were modified by the reviewer.
Say for instance, if the copy that Clinton reviewed, had a handwritten marginal note, "Dick, we can't do that because as you know they got us with TWA 800 and in OKC, so that policy is unworkable."
I think that those "Original copies" were the ones that got stuffed in the underwear, and were inadvertently used as a poopie pad by Burgler's puppy, so they are "unavailable" for return.
You need to source this better. Was it CBS News reporting this as a fact? Or was it some shill giving his opinion?
You need to source this better. Was it CBS News reporting this as a fact? Or was it some shill giving his opinion?
The Dims are MASTERS at this game.
I don't believe CBS. I believe John Ashcroft. I'll wait to hear it from him.
It's still an on going investigation .. how does he know?
I would call when I hde an outrages Rather Day..............they hang up on you......laugh at you, even if you are polite they mock you!
CBS NEWS
1212-975-4321 ask for NATIONAL
I do NOT believe this.
(Washington D.C.) Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today made the following statement:
"Like many Americans concerned about our national security, I look forward to learning more from the House Government Reform Committee's investigation into the wayward actions by Sandy Berger. The American people deserve to know why Mr. Berger apparently skirted the law and removed highly classified terrorism documents, purportedly in his pants, from a secure reading room at the National Archives and then proceeded to lose or destroy some of them.
"How could President Clinton's former National Security Advisor be so cavalier?
"Was Mr. Berger trying to cover-up key facts regarding intelligence failures during his watch?
"What happened to those missing documents?
"Whose hands did they fall into?
"What kind of security risk does that pose to Americans today?
"I know Chairman Tom Davis (R-VA) will work to get the full truth of what really happened and help all of us better understand why Sandy Berger, a person who should fully understand the gravity and importance of sensitive national security materials, would operate with such overt negligence and apparent disregard for the law."
That'll show em!