Posted on 07/22/2004 1:12:33 AM PDT by ambrose
What a quandary the Democrats and their media allies are facing. Both have to explain the inexplicable: how in just a matter of a week or two, top Kerry advisers, Sandy Berger and Joseph C. Wilson IV, have been mired in scandaland driven off the Kerry reservation.
Sandy Berger lifted top secret documents, reportedly stuffed them in his pants and socks, misplaced some of the purloined items and claimed it was all an honest mistake.
Mr. Wilson now stands revealed to be the liar he claimed President Bush was. In both cases, the muck sticks to the Kerry campaign, which doesn’t appear to be too choosy in picking advisers to their candidate.
To the mainstream media are now trying either to explain away what authorities insist is a felony, terming Berger’s theft "inadvertent." Or they simply avoiding covering the incident altogether. When Democrats cross the line and commit a crime it is a "mistake."
Allowing Berger to claim his action was "inadvertent" is comparable to allowing a bank robber who stuffed a bank’s money into his pants was simply an "honest mistake."
Apparently the Feds don’t see it in exactly those terms. As revealed by NewsMax.com, U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Comey "raised the specter of a jail sentence" for Berger, saying that if he is found guilty of removing top secret documents from the National Archives that were supposed to go to the 9/11 Commission, Berger could go to prison.
Even though his comments were widely quoted, the U.S. media edited out his reference to a possible prison term for Berger. Only Agence France Presse quoted the Deputy Attorney General in full, including this key observation on the Berger security breach: "It's our lifeblood to keep secrets," Comey told reporters in Washington. "All felonies in the federal system bring with them the promise of jail time, that's all I can say about that."
Could you imagine a judge telling Berger that he had been found guilty of committing an inadvertent, honest mistake?
Berger and his lawyer deny that he stuffed his pants and socks with the documents, claiming he merely put a few of them in his suit pockets, but the Feds say they have witnesses. The National Archives likely have video documentation of his visit.
On the other hand, Joe Wilson is also having a hard time these days, and the Kerry campaign should, as well. In the face of the disclosures that Joe Wilson lied about 1) the role his wife played in getting the CIA to send him to Niger, and 2) his claims that there wasn’t a shred of evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to get his hands on yellow cake nuclear material, John Kerry and John Edwards continue to charge that the president lied to the American people about this matter.
These latest disclosures have disclosed just how shoddy the Kerry campaign is, and should give Americans a glimpse of what an ungodly mess a Kerry administration would prove to be.
I am, right now, having fries with my burger. Mmmmmmm GOOD!
p.s. Where can I get the facts on the Joe Wilson story??
At 2 AM? Damn...I'd kill for a burger and fries...but then I'd have to leave my computer =/
It's simple, really. They're all lying scumbags.
Do you remember exactly what it was that Liddy and Colson got sentenced to prison for?
Dude, Jack in the Box, I caught em just before they closed too.
The left's allies in the media will do all in their power to change the subject, obfuscate the details and pretend that national security is a non issue.
THIS fact is being LOST with the skerry media whores.
Sandy Berger’s Heavy Lifting NRO ^ | 7/21/04 | Byron York: The documents Berger took — each copy of the millennium report is said to be in the range of 15 to 30 pages — were highly secret. They were classified at what is known as the "code word" level, which is the government's highest tier of secrecy. Any person who is authorized to remove such documents from a special secure room is required to do so in a locked case that is handcuffed to his or her wrist.
IT IS FR POSTED, NOTE in the following he's hanoi john's CHIEF ADVISER!
Kerry Adviser Sandy Berger Sees Potential 3 Year Force Presence in Iraq (CHIEF ADVISER berger)
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