P.J. Crowley foolishly decided to open his fat pie hole, now, he'd better make sure he has a good lawyer.
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.
curiouser and curiouser
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do they mean "widely circulated" like a take out menu from the local Chinese restaurant?
Can we expect to see it under our windshield wipers after a vist to the mall?
Now Clinton is making a JOKE of it because "everyone knows" how messy and disorganized HIS National Security Adviser has always been. Is that supposed to be a good receomendation for Berger's (and Clinton's) precious "legacy"? It would seem that all sorts of things could get lost on his desk while he was advising the President on OUR security. An absent minded professor type?
Very scary folks.
"This was a document that was very widely circulated".....
To me this translates to a lot of self incriminatory annotations written in the margins by the Clinton crew.
Seems like there are more loose cannons on the dem side of late.
If it was widely circulated, then why did sockburgler need to steal it?
DemocRATs and media types are drinking it by the gallon!
Compared to the impeachment, this is a massive ingestion!
WOW!
The draft copies on the other hand would not be circulated and the changes from the original to the final would tell volumes about the political pressure from Clinton and Berger to tone down the Clarke critique of the Administrations poor preparations against a terrorist attack. I would love to see that first Clarke draft. This is what they are attempting to cover up or discredit if it comes out.
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Although various drafts of the document may have been widely circulated, the comments that it generated would have stayed with each individual copy only come back to the source.
It is the comments that I believe Berger was sanitizing out of all the drafts.
So Crowley's claim that everything was known by many is PURE BUNKUM
I suspect that there were comments made thast clinton did not want the 9/11 commission to see and he made Berger go retrieve them.
Crowley claims the 9/11 commision got to see all the docs but that was only AFTER Berger had destryed some and removed the notes from others.