Posted on 07/21/2004 12:01:29 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
The astonishing admission of Samuel Sandy Berger, Bill Clintons 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 Bergers 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 Clintons 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, Clintons 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 Gorelicks Wall ever higher. In fact, as bagman for the Communist Chinese, Sandy Berger was himself likely one of the key beneficiaries of Gorelicks Wall.
Viewed against his record, Bergers theft and destruction of code-word-level secret documents and The Consiglieres stealthy involvement is all too readily understood.
[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
LOL!!
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Pantload Berger ready for another raid on the Ntl Archives.
Too bad those documents were not copied onto microfilm. That could really be interesting.
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.
MORE?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1117579/posts
GORELICK GATE - various FR links
Sandy Berger was a key beneficiary of "Gorelicks Wall"
TIME, "The Ubiquitous Mr. Fix-It", Adam Cohen
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 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"."
Great work,will save for later reading.
Thanks for the ping!
I thought Berger was just a guy with a messy desk?
Great stuff! Thank you for getting it together for us. b.
The best one can say about Berger is that he is stupid, inept, lacking in imagination, a liar, and a thief.
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?
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.
This has been picked up in Australia at http://www.brookesnews.com/042607_berger.html
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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 theyd 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 thats all
Some hed 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 were honest men.
The Clinton mob would never lie,
Oops, weve been caught again.
Conspiracy Guy 7/22/2004
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