Posted on 07/21/2004 1:15:11 PM PDT by The_Victor
All reports so far is there isn't a video. No one would be happier than I to find out that is wrong, but as more reports state it, the more certain it seems.
All reports seem to affirm eye witnesses (plural), though.
Whoa--I'm not whining about incompetence. I think it's perfectly reasonable to take 6 months, 8 months, or longer to conduct an investigation of this magnitude.
SPOT ON! Also, no matter when it was leaked/learned, it would have been a question of timing! But, yes, during the prison scandal it would have been a much appreciated diversion!
Reagan's Speech at the 4th Annual CPAC Convention: A New Republican Party
The time is now.
Misunderstanding. I wasn't referring to you but to a lot of other posts on this and other threads.
The fools!!! The media had this story on a glidepath to kill it within the next news cycle. But NO!! Kerry decides to goose it up for another couple of days by trying to make cheap and defensive political hay on the story!
This was posted at 6:26 EDT at The Corner:
BERGER'S GETTING A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION [KJL]
Speaker Hastert on Congressional Investigation Regarding National Security and Sandy Berger
(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."
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
If the Bush camp wanted to embarrass Kerry and the Dems, they would have release the story next week, during the Dems grope-fest in Boston.
All reports seem to affirm eye witnesses (plural), though.
It's all over then. Stick a fork in it, it's done.
Well, of course the headline would identify the two Senators as Republicans. Maybe the more exact headline should have read, "Senators Accuse ... ". The party affiliation should have been left off the headline. The point I was trying to make was in answer to the DNC filing under the FOIA for the information -- The RNC hasn't made any accusations, at least not on an official basis.
You're so wrong.
Hastert has really stepped up to the plate and acted as a leader, framing the issue and questions that need to be asked. Thanks for posting that.
Very good.
Just a reminder....Berger has ADMITTED to most of it, and is finessing the worst of it.
No, this isn't over. Not by a long shot.
Bump for #110
Appears Kerry is flipping Bergers now......
Looks like they're running the Clinton playbook - deny, delay, attack.
Chambliss on with Chris Matthews. Evidently the Kerry memo also accuses the Republicans of having lunch together yesterday and strategizing to branch out and make their statements against Berger. And the machiavellian Cheney was at the lunch.
Chambliss says that is nonsense. Matthews makes him state it flatly (which he had already done), so he denied it flatly again.
Chambliss says the whole story is weird. He can't picture Berger stuffing documents in his clothes, but he needs to answer for it. He wants to know what he did with those documents.
(BTW, was it me, or earlier did Chris talk to John McCain, who said the president's "sixteen words" have been more or less vindicated, and Chris still got away with not saying the name "Joe Wilson")
It wasn't you, I heard it, too.
He said it was very serious and that the DOJ would carry out a full investigation, and that he would not make any further comments. Of course the reporter was not satisfied with this but repeated the question, whereupon the President repeated the answer, somewhat more forcefully.
His comments on CNN were just right: presidential, and without saying much he made it clear this may be a crime, and crimes are handled by the legal authorities not the WH.
Kerry and the DNC look very small by comparison.
Worth repeating...for those of us who missed the interview and your post.
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