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Clinton NSC Spokesman: Secret Berger Doc Was 'Widely Circulated'
NewsMax.com ^ | 7/21/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 07/21/2004 11:17:15 PM PDT by kattracks

One of the top secret documents stolen from the National Archives by former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger last fall had been "widely circulated," former National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley revealed on Wednesday.

"This was a document back in 1999 and 2000 after the [foiled] Millennium [bomb plot]," Crowley told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "It was the after-action review of what the government did."

"This was a document that was very widely circulated," he added, without noting that the Millennium plot after-action review was considered so sensitive that it received the government's highest-coded security classification. Crowley did not say who circulated the document or when - and gave no indication whether Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign had received a copy.

The former National Security Council spokesman now works with the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party advocacy group aligned with the Kerry presidential campaign.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berger; sandyberger; trousergate
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1 posted on 07/21/2004 11:17:16 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks

P.J. Crowley foolishly decided to open his fat pie hole, now, he'd better make sure he has a good lawyer.


2 posted on 07/21/2004 11:21:24 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: kattracks

A widely circulated document with highest security classification? I don't recall seeing it. This is getting strange. Hold on to your hats. Could be an interesting summer. And enjoyable.


3 posted on 07/21/2004 11:21:57 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: kattracks
If he means widely circulated before it was stolen, he is muddying the water, trying to obscure the fact that the stolen papers might have had handwritten notes on them which made them unique from the circulated docs.

If he means that the STOLEN docs were subsequently circulated, then this is a ham-handed Clinton sabotage of Kerry.

If it's the latter, here comes H'lahrri!
4 posted on 07/21/2004 11:23:21 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Do Chernobyl restaurants serve Curied chicken?)
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To: Jeff Chandler

This is just another Clintonista bozo spouting off about stuff he probably has no idea but has left the door clear open for the FBI to pay him a little visit and, then, maybe the Kerry campaign headquarters, too, say Tuesday, right in the middle of the DemoncRAT convention ROFLMAO


5 posted on 07/21/2004 11:27:21 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: Steven W.

Won't the Michael Moore paranoids go nuts!


6 posted on 07/21/2004 11:30:07 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Do Chernobyl restaurants serve Curied chicken?)
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To: hole_n_one
"This was a document back in 1999 and 2000 after the [foiled] Millennium [bomb plot],"

Is that the same "foiled plot" that David Gergen claimed that Berger hunkered down in the White House bunker and saved the country from?

7 posted on 07/21/2004 11:30:35 PM PDT by Howlin (Free the 2000 Millenium Report!!!!!)
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To: kattracks

curiouser and curiouser


8 posted on 07/21/2004 11:30:55 PM PDT by moodyskeptic (www.WinWithHumor.com)
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To: kattracks

"This was a document that was very widely circulated," he added, without noting that the Millennium plot after-action review was considered so sensitive that it received the government's highest-coded security classification.


There was once a time when security classifications actually meant something. And (I'm told) you could get into really deep doo-doo if you showed stuff to people who weren't supposed to see it.


9 posted on 07/21/2004 11:31:59 PM PDT by Sapper26 (In Europe will it be called Celsius 488.3?)
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To: Steven W.
The president, meanwhile, has been claiming that America is "safer" under his leadership not 100 percent safe, but safer.

"There's an odd dynamic in that," said P.J. Crowley, director of national defense and homeland security at the Center for American Progress, a liberal-leaning research and educational institution in Washington. "The administration is trying to inoculate itself in case something bad does happen. And on the other hand, it ends up undercutting what the president is suggesting is one of his primary national security accomplishments and a key rationale for his re-election."

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Anyone believe that these people were EVER interested in our NATIONAL SECURITY?!

10 posted on 07/21/2004 11:32:07 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kattracks
This was a document that was very widely circulated,"

It is not the circulated finished document that Berger sought and probably succeeded in hiding. Somebody made some very embarrassing notes on one of the drafts IMHO.

11 posted on 07/21/2004 11:32:36 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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To: Steven W.; McGavin999; A Citizen Reporter; Mo1; ambrose
This is just another Clintonista bozo spouting off about stuff he probably has no idea but has left the door clear open for the FBI to pay him a little visit and, then, maybe the Kerry campaign headquarters, too, say Tuesday, right in the middle of the DemoncRAT convention ROFLMAO

This just gets better and better, doesn't it?

I haven't seen ONE of the talking heads they have sent out that knows what is going on! It's astonishing that they apparently are totally clueless as to what the actual facts in this little vingette are!

12 posted on 07/21/2004 11:33:00 PM PDT by Howlin (Free the 2000 Millenium Report!!!!!)
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To: Mike Darancette

"It's the margin notes, stupid!"


13 posted on 07/21/2004 11:34:53 PM PDT by Howlin (Free the 2000 Millenium Report!!!!!)
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To: Howlin

Clinton is playing all of them. He said he has known all about this for months now.

And he thinks it is hilarious.


14 posted on 07/21/2004 11:35:18 PM PDT by ambrose (Kerry is endorsed by the Communist Party USA)
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To: Howlin

Widly circulated? I suspect this person will be receiving guests in the very near future.


15 posted on 07/21/2004 11:36:48 PM PDT by McGavin999 (If Kerry can't deal with the "Republican Attack Machine" how is he going to deal with Al Qaeda)
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To: ambrose

I wish I had bookmarked a post I made within the last month about Clinton.

We were talking about Clinton and his scandals.

I said that he was way past due another scandal and that he'd never disappointed me yet.


And here we are.


16 posted on 07/21/2004 11:37:25 PM PDT by Howlin (Free the 2000 Millenium Report!!!!!)
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To: kattracks

OK. Let me get it all straight. I learned a few things in the last six years:

1.) It is okay to lie under oath as long as you claim it is only about sex, even if it isn't, and

2.) It is okay to stuff your socks, pants and suit jacket with classified documents that are never supposed to be removed from the Archive as long as you can say that it was a sloppy inadvertent error and that the documents were not "really" classified for all intents and purposes anyway.


17 posted on 07/21/2004 11:38:20 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo
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To: kattracks

One of the top secret documents stolen from the National Archives by former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger last fall had been "widely circulated," former National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley revealed on Wednesday.

From what Kerry said to Dan Rather on the Evening News was that he knew nothing about Berger and the documents. Nothing. Not a thing. Zilch. Funny how Clinton and his proteges said they knew about this stuff months ago. Here is Kerry on the Intelligence Committee and he knows nothing? No wonder he flip flops so much. He has no memory.


18 posted on 07/21/2004 11:40:01 PM PDT by taxesareforever
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To: kattracks

Spin, spin, spin, the Clinton War Room is back in business, I wonder where the headquarters is ? I'd love to be a fly on the wall.


19 posted on 07/21/2004 11:40:18 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: Howlin
I said that he was way past due another scandal and that he'd never disappointed me yet.

And here we are.

LOL! You might as well predict the sun rising in the east!

20 posted on 07/21/2004 11:41:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Do Chernobyl restaurants serve Curied chicken?)
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