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Berger’s Bonfire
WebCommentary.com ^ | 21 July 2004 | Scott Jordan

Posted on 07/21/2004 12:01:29 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast

Berger’s Bonfire

Berger’s record of inattention and malfeasance--and, yes, "sloppiness"--is unshreddable.

"[Lindsey's] nicknames have run the gamut from "the Enforcer"
to "the Consigliere," the Sicilian word for
a trusted counsel to a Mafia chieftain."
--Time Magazine, March 23 1998 [1]

The astonishing admission of Samuel “Sandy” Berger, Bill Clinton’s longtime National Security Advisor, that he stuffed “code-word”-class secret documents into his pants, sneaked them out of a secure review room at the National Archives and “inadvertently” destroyed them is highly disquieting to those familiar with Berger’s background and activities in the Clinton Administration.

In particular, the Washington Post reports [2] that Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge – and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999 and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts which reveal the thinking and agendas of the Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.

Cui bono? And when the losses were discovered, why did the Archives staff notify Bruce Lindsey? Lindsey, whom Time Magazine called Clinton’s consigliere, is the brilliant legal tactician both Clintons can thank for their continued freedom.

Berger has an impressive resume, but not one that obviously qualified him as NSA. He entered White House service a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China [3]. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that “he was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press” [4]. Indeed, Clinton’s brilliant poll-meister, Dick Morris, noted Berger “seemed to work overtime at opposing tough measures against terror” [5], advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding and working to block antiterror sanctions. It was Berger who repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns [6,7]. It was Berger who allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan [8]. It was Berger whose calls Bill Clinton ducked in 1998 when bin Laden was briefly vulnerable to missile attack [9]. It was Berger who was singled-out by former UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq [10]. It was Berger who helped broker the farcical antinuclear treaty with North Korea. It was Berger who ultimately admitted that the Clinton Administration had failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda [11].

At the same time, it was Berger who was the go-to man in the Administration on matters regarding China policy in the years when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers in exchange for policy concessions and strategic nuclear technology. It was Berger whom DNC Chairman Don Fowler approached for favors for George Chao-chi Chu, a Chinagate-linked John Huang crony described as having "unusual access to high-ranking Communist officials in China" who, like the just-exited chief-foreign-policy-advisor Berger, has current ties to John Kerry [12]. And it was Berger who the Energy Department approached with warnings of Chinese spying in Los Alamos, and who stonewalled the matter for three years [13].

The list goes on and on [14]: Berger was not just the malfeasant, poll-driven, cowardly hack at the helm of our national security apparatus who enabled the global metastasis of bloodthirsty jihad; he was not just one of the key people who roadblocked cooperation between law enforcement and foreign intelligence, stacking “Gorelick’s Wall” ever higher. In fact, as bagman for the Communist Chinese, Sandy Berger was himself likely one of the key beneficiaries of Gorelick’s Wall.

Viewed against his record, Berger’s theft and destruction of “code-word”-level secret documents – and “The Consigliere’s” stealthy involvement – is all too readily understood.


Notes: 

[1] TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/16/time/bruce.lindsey.html

[2] Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64379-2004Jul20.html

[3] Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html

[4] Freeh quoted in The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp

[5] Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824

[6] National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry, http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp

[7] Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter, http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030922-090028-4916r.htm

[8] NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/5/153637.shtml

[9] US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003

[10] "Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter, reviewed by Daniel Pipes, http://www.danielpipes.org/article/896

[11] National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry, http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200310290829.asp

[12] The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey, http://www.hillnews.com/news/073003/fundraiser.aspx

[13] Sen. James Inhofe, http://www.matthewgoss.org/chinagate.html

[14] National Review, "The Clinton Intel Record", Mansoor Ijaz, http://nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment042903.asp


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; sandyberger; trousergate
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren

LOL!!


21 posted on 07/21/2004 4:26:28 PM PDT by visualops
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To: Alamo-Girl

ping


22 posted on 07/21/2004 4:43:12 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (You're it)
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To: Dr._Joseph_Warren

Pantload Berger ready for another raid on the Ntl Archives.

23 posted on 07/21/2004 7:07:06 PM PDT by Liz
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Excellent expose' of facts.

Too bad those documents were not copied onto microfilm. That could really be interesting.

24 posted on 07/21/2004 7:10:43 PM PDT by forest
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To: Diogenesis
You posted the following on another thread that got pulled as a dupe. It was so good and informative that I'm repeating it here (where many of the quotes you've turned into links came from):


THE REAL DEAL:

THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION,
The Mysterious Jamie Gorelick Phone Call
By David Hoffman,Sun Sep 14 12:10:57 1997


On Aug. 22, 1996, just before the Democratic National Convention,
Ms. Gorelick oversaw a critical Justice Department meeting with the FBI.
mmediately after this meeting, as it happened,
all serious inquiry into the fate of TWA 800 came to an end.

Gorelick was instrumental in the corruption of TWA Flight 800 terrorism investigation
Did Clinton appointee corrupt Flight 800 probe?


MORE?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts
GORELICK GATE - various FR links




Sandy Berger was a key beneficiary of "Gorelick’s Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen


John Kerry was a key beneficiary of Berger's Burglaries
Rescued: Data the Kerry/Edwards Campaign Tried to DELETE from its site! (grandpa dave found cache)


Berger purloined all draft revisions of a key critique of the government's response
to the millennium terrorism threat, a document that detailed Administration knowledge
– and inaction – regarding al Qaeda presence in the U.S. in 1999
and 2000. Stolen were crucial notes in the margins of these drafts
which reveal the thinking and agendas of the
Clinton Administration relating to the mounting terrorist threat.
Washington Post, "Berger Quits as Advisor to Kerry", Susan Schmidt


Berger was not qualified as NSA.
He was a millionaire lawyer and lobbyist with a career centered on expanding trade with China.
Tom Laughlin, http://www.billyjack.com/jung/08_politics/articles/990515_spy.html


Former FBI Director Louis Freeh opined that
Burger “was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press” .
The New Yorker, per http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200311030753.asp


Dick Morris noted Berger “seemed to work overtime
at opposing tough measures against terror”,
advising vetoes of legislation aimed at crippling Iranian terror funding
and working to block antiterror sanctions.
Wall Street Journal, "While Clinton Fiddled", Dick Morris, http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=95001824


Berger repeatedly rebuffed Sudanese offers to hand Osama bin Laden
to the United States in a deal brokered by a $900,000 contributor to Democrat campaigns.
Source 1 - National Review, "Clinton & Khobar", Rich Lowry


Source 2 - Washington Times, "Miniter Responds", Richard Miniter


Berger allowed bin Laden and his top lieutenants to escape to Afghanistan.
NewsMax, "Aide: Clinton Unleashed bin Laden", Chuck Noe


Berger was singled-out by UN Inspector Scott Ritter for the collapse of UN inspections efforts in Iraq].
"Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and for All" by Scott Ritter


Berger admitted that the Clinton Administration failed to develop a war plan to fight al Qaeda
National Review, "Warning B.S.", Rich Lowry


Berger was the "go-to" man regarding China policy
when Communist Chinese money was being funneled into Democrat Party coffers
in exchange for policy concessions, strategic nuclear technology,
and all pending patent applications at the US Patent Office.
The Hill, "Fundraiser resurfaces from 1996", Sam Dealey


Berger stonewalled the Energy Department about Chinese spying in Los Alamos for three years.


It was Berger whose calls Bill Clinton ducked in 1998 when bin Laden was briefly vulnerable to missile attack.
US News & World Report, Paul Bedard, 15 Mar 2003

"Mr. Berger, please this is urgent.
We can take out Osama, now. Please answer!!! We have him in our sight."

Berger-Burglar: "Nope. Forgetaboutit. No big deal. I am watching the West Wing."


"I was summoned to the office of National Security adviser Sandy Berger,
who chewed me out for not having a national security adviser (on the West Wing).
So I opened the next season with Anna Deavere Smith as the national security adviser
" -
Aaron Sorkin


Lucky-to-have-only-been-Impeached before the 911 Commission
with his Document-Procurer-on-Loan-to-Kerry Sandy (the) NSA Burglar:
[quietly, fuming, out of the side of his mouth]
"Sandy, are you absolutely d@amn positively certain you took
each and every one of the important classified documents?
Sandy, if you f&ck up, she will put us both into Fort Marcy Park."


Sandy Burglar: "You dont understand.
Why did I throw them away and give xeroxes to my client Kerry, you ask? Well, because I could!!!
I finally got my own copy of Gorelick's book "Destruction of Evidence".
"


Consider: If Gorelick, Clarke and Clinton had been completely HONEST
to the American public about the Islamic-crashed airplanes, like TWA800, in the 90's
or the other Islamic terror attacks, then Americans WOULD have been on alert on 911
and would have had the opportunity to prevent the 911 Atrocities.


25 posted on 07/21/2004 7:23:48 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (You're it)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

Great work,will save for later reading.


26 posted on 07/21/2004 7:51:36 PM PDT by samantha (Don't panic, the adults are in charge)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

Thanks for the ping!


27 posted on 07/21/2004 9:19:03 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
The Best and The Truest!
28 posted on 07/22/2004 2:37:10 AM 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: RightOnTheLeftCoast

I thought Berger was just a guy with a messy desk?


29 posted on 07/22/2004 2:50:13 AM PDT by geopyg (Peace..................through decisive and ultimate VICTORY. (Democracy, whiskey, sexy))
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

Great stuff! Thank you for getting it together for us. b.


30 posted on 07/25/2004 12:20:45 PM PDT by Barset
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

The best one can say about Berger is that he is stupid, inept, lacking in imagination, a liar, and a thief.


31 posted on 07/25/2004 12:24:45 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

But doesn't this article, while lifting the rock off of creepy Berger's anti-American activities while NSC, show that all roads lead to Berger? If he goes down, does he go down alone as one bad seed? Do the Clintons shake their heads and bite their lips and distance themselves?


32 posted on 07/25/2004 12:35:23 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

One might think by reading about all of Mr. Berger's crimes that we have found the true source of corruption in the Clinton Administration. If we just send him to jail, we will have purged the Clintonians of the one bad apple in their barrel. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

The Clintons are like magnets for traitors, deceivers, thieves and liars. Everyone, EVERYONE, close to the Clintons must be one of these or he/she does not make it into the inner circle.


33 posted on 07/25/2004 12:56:48 PM PDT by Rocky (Heinz Kerry: 57 positions on any issue)
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To: Conspiracy Guy

This has been picked up in Australia at http://www.brookesnews.com/042607_berger.html


34 posted on 07/25/2004 9:21:20 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (You're it)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

bump


35 posted on 07/26/2004 4:30:24 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

bttt


36 posted on 07/26/2004 4:32:52 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

btttttttttt


37 posted on 07/26/2004 4:36:14 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

The File Bergler

He went to see the documents,
You know the Secret kind.
What happened as he left the place,
Will surely blow your mind.
Somehow, weeks later, it appears,
They asked him where they’d gone.
He looked around and sure enough,
His socks were not alone.
His pants and jacket they were stuffed,
With papers large and small.
Osama and Al Qaeda too,
Just little things that’s all
Some he’d thrown away he said,
But those were nothing big.
Old Sandy is a clutter bug,
Announced the Clinton pig.
So shake it off and move along,
You know we’re honest men.
The Clinton mob would never lie,
Oops, we’ve been caught again.

Conspiracy Guy 7/22/2004


38 posted on 07/26/2004 4:37:46 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (They are where you least expect. Look around and you'll see them too.)
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