Posted on 07/21/2004 7:59:22 PM PDT by Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh
Archives Employees Suspicious of Berger... devised a coding system and marked the documents they knew Berger was interested in canvassing, and watched him carefully... employees determined that that draft and all four or five other versions of the millennium memo had disappeared from the files after Berger viewed them, WASH POST set to report, say sources... Developing...
Billable hours. It's all about billable hours with the lawyers.
Yep. The WaPo is expected to spin, not report.
Saw somewhere the archivists first notified Bruce Lindsey of all people.
Connect the dots:
AP runs the story:
Tue Jul 20, 4:23 PM ET Clinton Aide Investigated on Terror Memos By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer Mr Solomon include many quotes from Berger's lawyer.
How did Soloman get the story? Here we have insight from Lanny Davis:
Thus, Davis called the reporter he deemed most fair, the AP's John Solomon, with documents suggesting that Clinton had made fund-raising calls from the White House residence. The leak occurred on July 3, 1997, so the story would get lost on the Fourth of July holiday.
So who told Lanny?
In fact, Davis operated under a cloak of deniability -- his supervisor in the counsel's office, Lanny Breuer, insisted that Davis keep him informed in general terms but didn't want to know the gory details of his leaking.
Lanny Breuer is the lawyer for...Sandy Berglar
What do you think? Plausible? Yes.
I simply don't see it happening - I will be mildly shocked if this story makes the evening news once next week (on any of the big three networks).
But I do agree - once a story gets a certain level it blows up on its own - But the media will not let this get there - no way (IMO) - non-election year (maybe) - no way 3 moths before an election against the guy they want to win - I'll be shocked!
I currently work with classified and I can tell you that a lot of the documentation rules are no longer followed. According to DoD regs (my realm), every classified document above TS//CODEWORD must have it's destruction classified (when you shred it, write down what it was). Nowadays, with Intelink and everything primarily on softcopy this isn't really done anymore (unless it's a special access program). But we still have an amazingly low number of security incidences, with most being something as simple as accidentally butting a secret document in UNCLAS take-home paperwork or accidentally moving top secret data down to a secret only system. But if somebody were to smuggle out documents in their socks, MULTIPLE TIMES, they'd be toast.
Interestingly Anne Coulter on Scarborough tonight, during a discussion on the Berger affair, made the comment that the MSM still has not figured out that there is an Internet out there.
Here, let me put down my bottle of Jack and re-read what I wrote.....wait a minute....did I write that?? I must have been drinking.
What is our authority for the claim that these were all copies and none were originals? Are we absolutely certain that no data (such as hand written notes on Draft copies) has been irretrievably lost?
Berger must have had some reason for destroying some of the documents that he took home when it would have been much easier to cover his tracks by simply turning them back in. He could then have claimed that he just needed to take them home to work on them and he might have had a case although a very weak one.
If he believed that he had the one and only copy of these documents then his actions would infer a motive - a straight cover-up based on the destruction of the incriminating evidence.
I remember that well. Who knew they were such a threat to National Security...cute little guys.
Yeah, I laughed when I heard that. I would bet that when that call was made, the FBI was already listening.
My understanding is the main visit to the Archives at issue (and there are several) was in October.
However, I don't believe the FBI came on the scene until January. That is not "last fall". And notice Lanny Breuer's deceitful "this was a year ago" spin he tried to haul out today.
Beware of defense and dem representations of the timeline.
Let's just see what the WaPo has to say about it when their report comes out. I won't hold my breath. The WaPo is just as much in bed with the DNC as the NYT. The WaPo didn't print as many stories about Abu Ghraib as the NYT did, but they gave it enough attention and a few miles.
This has to worry the Democrats. Why? Because, if the documents were specially marked and he was being surveilled by Archive staff, one gets the impression that other law enforcement agencies were involved. If that's the case, the call to Lindsey makes sense in the context of a sting operation.
In other words, they called him to see who he would talk to and what he would say. That's got to worry the traitors on the Left.
The Post story is now on the net:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4189-2004Jul21.html
"Archives Staff Was Suspicious of Berger"
"Last Oct. 2, former Clinton national security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger stayed huddled over papers at the National Archives until 8 p.m.
What he did not know as he labored through that long Thursday was that the same Archives employees who were solicitously retrieving documents for him were also watching their important visitor with a suspicious eye.
After Berger's previous visit, in September, Archives officials believed documents were missing. This time, they specially coded the papers to more easily tell whether some went missing, said government officials and legal sources familiar with the case. ..."
Imagine. Kerry hiring a guy under investigation for stealing intelligence documents, destroying some of them.
Berger was supposedly questioned in March. When did that moron hire him to be his international affairs guru?
And they were likely trying to see who Berger was going to pass the classified to. Looking for his handler. They would treat it as a espionage investigation.
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