Posted on 07/21/2004 11:05:17 AM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Serious: Theft of Papers Showing Al-Qaeda in US Under Clinton is HUGE |
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July 20, 2004 |
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Listen to Rush (...explain just how serious the Sandy Berger document theft is) BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: President Clinton's national security advisor Sandy Burglar is the focus of a justice department investigation. Do you know this has been going on? This was first discovered last October, and the investigation has been going on. I mean, this thing, the pilferage (story) of these classified docs, happened last October and the investigation has been going on since the end of January. The 9/11 commission leaked this. This is a 9/11 commission leak, I think, and I'm wondering. The White House claims they didn't know about this investigation, even though the justice department was doing it. I'll tell you what this does. This puts this into even greater context. You remember when Ashcroft showed up and testified on television even before the commission and outed Jamie Gorelick with her memo that built the wall? I think this places a lot of that in greater context now, why he did that. I think he might have been -- he couldn't discuss the investigation, but he was letting everybody know what he did know. Look it, listen to this line in the story. This is part of Sandy Berger's statement: "In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration, in connection with requests by the September 11th Commission, I inadvertently took a few documents." (Laughing.) Can you imagine? Don't you just hate it when that happens? He "inadvertently took" stuff. He inadvertently took stuff that you're not... You know, John Deutsch, Clinton's CIA director was pardoned for taking things home. (EIB Excerpt of Story) Remember? This guy had it all on a laptop that he was taking home and he got pardoned for by Clinton for this, a little inadvertent thing. But, folks, the nut line in this sentence, in this statement: "In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration..." There's no Clinton administration now! When he went in there to "inadvertently" purloin these documents and stuff 'em down his pants, there was no Clinton administration. He was sent in there by Bill Clinton, not the Clinton "administration." Who the hell is the Clinton administration? Of course, Clinton will have no knowledge of this. Clinton won't recall this. Berger will not recall being sent in there by Clinton. Clinton won't know why Berger did this. He'll be saddened by it. But the Dem response is going to be, "Look, everybody makes mistakes. It's just an inadvertent little mistake. Can't we just get the documents back and move on? Don't we allow people to make mistakes in this country?" That's what the Dems are going to say, or they're going to say that Bush, somebody in the Bush administration, planted the documents down Berger's pants and they knew about this all along and waited to release this two days before the 9/11 commission report comes out. You just know what the left is going to say about this. Call it a bureaucratic snafu, whatever. Folks, I have so many lines with this that I apologize because I've gotten off the path where we need to take this, because this is huge. (Laughing.) Here I am laughing about it, but it's big. This is big, and I'll tell you why. It's the stuff that was stolen, the stuff that's probably now been shredded, the stuff that he just inadvertently sloppily can't find. |
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You know what those documents contained? Elements of evidence that Al-Qaeda was in the country in 1999! It's all part of this millennium plot that the Clinton administration tried to take a lot of credit for stopping when in fact it was just good police work by a single Customs agent. It was not the results of any directive. This all came out in the 9/11 commission report as well, or hearings. But what's missing is that there are documents elevating, or detailing elements of, Al-Qaeda entry into the United States in 1999, and so when Sandy Burglar says, "Yeah, well, I was sent by the Clinton administration," da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, of course he was sent there by Bill Clinton to get the evidence out. That's what one of the suspicions is, because the whole point of all this has been to shove every bit of Al-Qaeda, 9/11 blame onto the Bush administration. So, you know, none of this is an accident. You don't go in there and inadvertently take things out when you're the national security advisor! You know what the rules are. You know that classified docs don't get taken out of the room, you know they don't get taken home, you know they don't get stuffed down your pants and socks. You know all of this. What's a technicality? Of course his lawyer is going to say -- of course his lawyer is going to say that the archive rules that you don't take things out of there is a technicality, they're also saying that what he had were copies, you know, not originals. That's why I say, that's just as good as saying my client has a paper fetish. And that's -- and that's our defense. Forget what the lawyer says here. We got to look at the facts, and the facts are that this just does not pass any kind of smell test, particularly when one knows what the missing documents contain. So, look, all right, we have a little fun with this and we're going to have some more with it but also the serious elements need to be delved into. ![]() All right, "President Clinton's national security advisor, Sandy Berger, the focus of a justice department investigation, after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room during preparations for the September 11th Commission hearings. Berger's home and office were searched earlier this year by FBI agents armed with warrants after he voluntarily returned documents to the National Archives. However, still missing," (clearing throat) "are some drafts of a sensitive after-action report on the Clinton administration's handling of Al-Qaeda terror threats during the December 1999 millennium celebration. Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed handwritten notes that he had made while reading classified anti-terror documents at the archives by sticking them in his jacket and pants. He also inadvertently took copies of actually classified documents in a leather portfolio, they said." |
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Here's his statement: "I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of withholding documents from the commission, and to the contrary, to my knowledge every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced." Mmm-hmm. "Lanny Breuer, one of the Berger's attorneys, said his client has offered to cooperate fully with the investigation but had not yet been interviewed by FBI or prosecutors. Berger has been told he's the subject of the criminal investigation." You know, Charles Colson went to jail for something a little less than this, maybe, something like this. He entered a guilty plea. He had really nothing to do with Watergate. Colson entered a guilty plea on an obstruction of justice charge in the Daniel Ellsberg case, Pentagon papers, stolen documents. Anybody want to draw a parallel here? He served seven months of a one-to-three-year sentence, Chuck Colson did, on a stolen documents case. "In the course of reviewing over several days thousands of pages of documents on behalf of the Clinton administration in connection with a request by the September 11th Commission, I, undersigned Sandy [Burglar], inadvertently took a few documents from the archives." On behalf of the Clinton administration? On behalf of President Clinton -- who will no doubt not recall any of this -- and by the time we're all finished here, this is going to be something, a conspiracy set up by John Ashcroft who runs the justice department, of course. "When I was informed," this is more from Burglar, "when I was informed by the archives that there were documents missing, I immediately returned everything I had, except for a few documents that I apparently had accidentally discarded." Burglar said he "believed he was looking at copies of the classified documents, not originals." Burglar was allowed to take handwritten notes but he also knew that taking his own notes out of the secure reading room was a technical violation of archive procedures but it's not clear to us that this represents a violation of the law, said his lawyer, Breuer. "Government congressional officials familiar with all this who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the probe involves classified materials said that the investigation remains active. No decision had been made on whether Burglar should face criminal charges. The officials said the documents were highly classified and included critical assessments..." (Laughing) Be still my beating heart. I lost my place. Where...? "...included critical assessments about the Clinton administration's handling of the millennium terror threats, as well as identification of America's terror vulnerabilities at airports and seaports." Now, look, there are many of us, uh, ladies and gentlemen, who suspect that one of the objectives of the 9/11 commission Democrats is to deflect any blame or association for any acts of terrorism on this country to inaction or lackadaisical behavior, laziness on the part of the Clinton administration -- and the reason we believe this is because we know that the Clinton people have been hauling ass trying to rewrite a legacy for this man. ![]() They have been doing everything they can to erase the Monica Lewinsky image from everybody's frontal lobe when they think and hear the name Bill Clinton, and so Clinton has been doing everything he can to rehab his image. He has a very large coterie of loyal supporters, one of whom is on the 9/11 commission, one of whom should have been a witness, not a member -- one of them, Jamie Gorelick, whose memo erected the wall that prevented intelligence from sharing information it gathered with law enforcement, and now we find out that Sandy Burglar, Clinton's #1 spook outside of the CIA. I mean this is the national security advisor guy! Look it, Sandy Berger was to Bill Clinton as Condoleezza Rice is to George Bush, and if this were Condoleezza Rice and George Bush she would already be in an orange jumpsuit. If this investigation had been going on since last October or January, Condi Rice would be wearing an orange jumpsuit and be setting in a cell next to Martha Stewart. That would be what's going on. Now, with this case, we get "sloppiness;" we get "inadvertently." |
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We get, "Oh, damn, we hate when this happens. Isn't it a shame? I don't know what I could have done with these documents that implicated my administration. Gee it's just too bad." So you will pardon us if we have some doubts and suspicions about this when it's the critical assessments that are suspiciously missing. The former national security advisor himself, Sandy Burglar, had ordered his anti-terror czar Richard Clarke in early 2000 to write the after-action report. He has spoken publicly about how to review brought to the forefront a realization that Al-Qaeda had reached America's shores and required more attention. That's what's missing. Berger testified that during the millennium period, "We thwarted threats, and I do believe it was important to bring the principals together on a frequent basis to consider terror threats more regularly." "The missing documents involved two or three draft versions of the report as it was evolving and being refined by the Clinton administration, officials and lawyers say. The archives are believed to have copies of some of the missing documents. Samuel Burglar is the second high level Clinton-era official to face controversy over taking classified information home. Former CIA director John Deutsch was pardoned by Clinton just hours before Clinton left office in 2001 for taking home classified information and keeping it on unsecured laptops in his home during his time at the CIA and the Pentagon. Deutsche was about to enter into a plea agreement for a misdemeanor charge of mishandling government secrets when the pardon was granted." So we're still, ladies and gentlemen, having Clinton scandals during the Bush administration. We still are. Another Clinton scandal here has erupted. Now, let's go back, and ask: "What is this really all about, folks?" because this, despite the obvious humorous aspects, this is really serious stuff because there is an ongoing effort to spare the Clinton administration -- and Bill Clinton personally -- of any responsibility whatsoever for anything that has happened deleteriously to this country in the world of terrorism. Now, F. Lee Levin, our legal advisor here at the Limbaugh Institute, wrote a great piece for National Review Online on April 15th, shortly after John Ashcroft testified before the 9/11 commission, and let me read to you excerpts of F. Lee's piece. "In his public testimony before the 9/11 Commission the other day, Attorney General John Ashcroft exposed Commissioner Jamie Gorelick's role in undermining the nation's security capabilities by issuing a directive insisting that the FBI and federal prosecutors ignore information gathered through intelligence investigations. But Ashcroft pointed to another document that also has potentially explosive revelations about the Clinton administration's security failures. In part, Ashcroft stated: "... (T)he Commission should study carefully the National Security Council plan (that's where Berger worked) to disrupt the al Qaeda network in the U.S. that our government failed to implement fully seventeen months before September 11. The NSC's Millennium After Action Review declares that the United States barely missed major terrorist attacks in 1999 with luck playing a major role. Among the many vulnerabilities in homeland defenses identified, the Justice Department's surveillance and the FISA operations were specifically criticized for their glaring weaknesses. It is clear from the review that actions taken in the Millennium Period should not be the operating model for the U.S. government." Again, these documents are the ones missing. "In March 2000, the review warns the prior Administration of a substantial al Qaeda network and affiliated foreign terrorist presence within the U.S., capable of supporting additional terrorist attacks here. This is what is reputed to be missing. Furthermore, fully seventeen months before the September 11 attacks, the review recommends disrupting the al Qaeda network and terrorist presence here using immigration violations, minor criminal infractions, and tougher visa and border controls. These are the same aggressive, often criticized law enforcement tactics we have unleashed for 31 months to stop another al Qaeda attack. This is Ashcroft still speaking. These are the same tough tactics we deployed to catch Ali al-Marri, who was sent here by al Qaeda on September 10, 2001, to facilitate a second wave of terrorist attacks on Americans. Despite the warnings and the clear vulnerabilities identified by the NSC in 2000 - Sandy Berger -no new disruption strategy to attack the al Qaeda network within the United States was deployed. It was ignored in the Department's five-year counterterrorism strategy. |
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He was supposed to be "reviewing" documents at the National Archives and he was slipping them into his pants. Hell, I'm shocked!
Now for another fun interactive computer event on this serious treason.
A lot of the purloined data was on al Kerry's Web site and used by him in a speech. Yesterday, when this was pointed out on FR, that data disappeared.
Thanks to an alert by hc hutch, we can hurry to Google to see this data as it was, before it disappeared.
Google has a cache of the press release.
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:-D_V0TfzaH0J:www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0227a.html++%22UCLA+International+Institute%22+site:johnkerry.com&hl=en
So everyone who has not seen this removed Kerry Data should go to the Google link above, make a copy and send yourself an email. Save the email to another folder on your hard disk. Then send this to your email list and ask them to do the same.
If a lot of us do this, we should have hundreds of thousands of freepers with this data saved.
The only thing that should be said in reply is, "You are under arrest, Sandy Burglar!"
LOLOL...and we thought only Clinton filed things in strange places.
One of the obvious questions here is; boxers or briefs?
Cool! Never would have thought of that- folks, we'd all better save this fast- you know it will vanish...
At least Albright wasn't helping him.
Bump for later read.
So everyone who has not seen this removed Kerry Data should go to the Google link above, make a copy and send yourself an email. Save the email to another folder on your hard disk.
"Cool! Never would have thought of that- folks, we'd all better save this fast- you know it will vanish..."
I learned this little trick 3 summers ago during the Oregon forest fires. At first I would find past tactics/data on the enviral web sites in Oregon and the USFS sites in Oregon that set up the fires.
At first I would just post the links on Free Republic. Then freepers would tell that data was no longer there on the sites.
So I decided to do this before even posting any other data from their sites. That way I had it on my Url mail server, and a copy on my computer.
The LaRaza thugs and other Hostile Mexican websites were in rapid removal of data when it was exposed on FR during the recall battle.
Now we have the Soxgate episode. You can bet that any rat site will remove any data cited on FR. So if people see great data for our side, copy it and email yourself before posting it to FR. Then make your posts/replies, and copies are there.
I was not aware of how Google would hold this data for awhile until HC Hutch showed me today.
We need to confirm that these were or were not original documents and whether or not there were copies of all of them. Since some were drafts they would not be circulated widely so the number of copies would be limited and could be 1 original only. The electronic copies might show the drafts as well (that's how Word works) but the hand written notes that are likely to be on the early drafts are probably the missing link. I can just see the notation on Clarke's draft copy: "Prez & Berger want this toned down. It could come back to bite us later."
Much of this could be answered if we knew the policies and procedures of the archive.
Hoping that someone has a definitive answer to these issues. Many of them could be addressed by the Administration without jeopardizing the Berger case (I love the sound of that). Just let us know how business was done in the Reading Room. That should not be a secret. Any decent journalist would ask this question first at the next Daily Briefing.
You bet.
Thanks for this great post.
Please ping me if you have anymore on Soxgate.
Great!
I'm becoming dehydrated reading these threads.
I learned the hard way not to have coffee, water, chocolate milk, OJ, or any other drinks in my mouth or hands while glancing at the Soxgate threads.
Shirt=Classified
Pants=Secret
Socks=Top Secret
Great:
Not in a box!
Not in a fox!
Not in a lox!
But in a Sox!
Thanks for the google cache on Tighty Whitey Gate.
We sure fought the wrong guys in that war! (serbia)
IOW; Clintoon worked WITH Al-Quada in 1997-1999 timeframe. Hardly something the Pervert-in-Chief would want raising to the surface in a 9-11 commission report. Nor Sandy Bergler; as architect of foreign policy.
And this from a Dem named John Loftus. (Don't shoot me; I'm the messenger)
Fascinating scenario. If there is truth in this, then careful investigation could damage the Democrats for years to come.
No, *we* cannot, because we do not have the required security clearance. Do you understand that whether or not the originals are still there doesn't matter at all?
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