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
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.
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")